Courtesy of James Harrison, Guernsey. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, Woman of the Year, Performance of the Year, and Offering of the Year. The WOWSA Awards are selected by the public in an online poll. With […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach. Kathy Batts, Ian Muir and Kevin Murphy are hosting and coaching a open water swimming camp in Menorca, Spain between April 3rd – 10th [see The King’s Swimmers here]. There is a whole lot of experience and passion between those two. Murphy has done 34 English Channel crossings, including the

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Walk around Dover and the name of Freda Streeter is a name spoken by channel swimmers with highest reverence and respect. As the long-time icon of The Dover Beach Crew* and the mother of the most prolific English Channel swimmer in history (her daughter Alison Streeter, MBE), she has

Courtesy of New York Open Water, New York. LongSwimsDB by Evan Morrison is now used by marathon swimmers around the world, enabling reporters, swimmers, coaches, administrators, sponsors, co-workers, teammates and friends easy access to the track records of over 13,000 swimmers from 124 countries and over 33,000 marathon and open water swims performed over 177

Morty Berger created NYC Swim over 20 years ago. In addition to further developing the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, he also worked within the New York City and State bureaucracy to organize the Great Hudson River Swim, Stars & Stripes: Aquathlon & Swim Aquathlon, the Brooklyn Bridge Swim, the Governors Island Swim, the Manhattan Island

Courtesy of Asociación de Cruce A Nado Del Estrecho De Gibraltar. Laura Gutiérrez Díaz is the daughter of the late Asociación de Cruce A Nado Del Estrecho De Gibraltar (Strait of Gibraltar Swimming Association) president Rafael Gutiérrez Mesa who passed away on September 12th 2017 at the age of 59 years. Gutiérrez founded and served

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. KIM SWIMS, a documentary film about Kimberley Chambers‘ journey and adventures in the open water world, was directed by Kate Webber. Webber and Chambers’ film will be honored as the prestigious opening night film at the 15th annual Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco, California on March 8th 2018,