Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The General Assembly of the United Nations will celebrate April 6th as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. April 6th commemorates the inauguration of the first Olympic games of the modern era in Athens, Greece in 1896. The UN General Assembly of the United Nations explained […]

Courtesy of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and WOWSA. Anne Chagnaud (Class of 1998) and Stéphane Lecat (Class of 2007) were the only French swimmers inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame before fellow Frenchman Jacques Tuset was inducted this year. Tuset is the world’s leading prison island swimmer who has also

Photos courtesy of Sarah Thomas. One of the most appreciated compliments received by any athlete is from one’s own peers. Among the Class of 2018 honorees in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame is American Sarah Thomas who is among the youngest inductees who will be honored on March 31st in England. Thomas is

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Linda Kaiser of Honolulu, Hawaii will be honored in the Class of 2018 induction ceremony and gala of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame on March 31st at the De Vere Beaumont Estate in Old Windsor, England. Kaiser is one of the world’s most prolific warm-water channel swimmers

Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Dingle, Ireland. Nuala Moore, an open water swimmer and a veteran scuba instructor, is currently in Patagonia in the Southern Hemisphere. She is planning on swimming in Cape Horn, across the Beagle Channel and the Strait of Magellan this week, dramatically distant and different than her home base in Dingle, Ireland.

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Betina Lorscheitter won the 5 km race in 59:49 over Marina Amorim and Cibelle Jungblut at Stage II of the Campeonato Brasileiro de Maratonas Aquáticas. “I’m really happy. I tried to get closer to the men’s pack.” On the men’s side, Victor Colonese won in Caraguatatuba on the north

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kristof Rasovszky kicked off his 2018 LEN Open Water Swimming Cup campaign in victorious fashion in Eilet, Israel as he did last year when he won all the LEN Cup races. The defending Cup champion defeated two top Russians Kirill Abrosimov and Evgenii Drattcev to win the €2500 first

Photo courtesy of Zsófia Muzsnay, Eilet, Israel. Nikolett Szilágyi kicked off her 2018 LEN Open Water Swimming Cup campaign in victorious fashion in Eilet, Israel over a strong field. In a close finish, she sprinted home first, defeating Ginevra Taddeucci, an Italian who finished second overall in the 2017 LEN Cup series, 2016 Olympian Anastasiia

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Many open water swimmers and triathletes head over to their local pool, an open water swim or competition with a Starbucks drink in hand. If not, they are bound to cross paths with one or more of the many Starbucks locations. Starbucks, like other chain outlets, try to deliver

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Thinking way, way outside the box way, way out into the future in the open water swimming world, below are some uniquely bizarre products that might be cool to see or use in later part of the 21st century or perhaps beyond: 1. Swimsuit Sans Strings: For men, these