Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kimberley Chambers took a difficult 19 hours 27 minutes to swim across the Molokai Channel from Molokai Island to Oahu in 2012. She will return – at least on movie screens – in 2018. Kim Swims, a documentary film about Chambers directed by Kate Webber, will be shown at […]

Courtesy of Satiro Sodré, Guilherme Freitas, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Over 3,000 swimmers participated in the Rei e Rainha do Mar’s 10 km Super Challenge, 5 km Challenge, 2.5 km Classic and 1 km Sprint races on Copacabana Beach this weekend. The longest race of the weekend was the 10 km Super Challenge

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach. Cameron Bellamy from Cape Town, South Africa attempted the latest crossing on record of the Tsugaru Channel in late October. He has been successful in his other channel swims and rowing, cycling and triathlon endurance events over the course of his athletic career, but his sixth Oceans Seven attempt in

Courtesy of Betina Lorscheitter, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There is no open water race in the world where the start and finish are as competitive or as important as the relay race at the Rei e Rainha do Mar (King and Queen of the Sea) in Copacabana Beach. The annual made-for-television invitational race

Courtesy of FINA, Sanya, China. At the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Gala Soirée des Etoiles, Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil was announced as the 2017 FINA Best Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year for the fourth time in the eight years of the award. Her coach Fernando Possenti was selected as the FINA Open

Courtesy of FINA, Sanya, China. At the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Gala Soirée des Etoiles, Marc-Antoine Olivier of France was announced as the 2017 FINA Best Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year. His coach Philippe Lucas was selected as the FINA Open Water Coach of the Year. An interview with FINA is here. His

Courtesy of Sharon van Rouwendaal under French coach Philippe Lucas*. How does an Olympic 10 km marathon swimming champion train? Through killer workouts at a killer pace at killer intervals with a killer mindset. And occasionally a set of 20 x 200m butterfly. “The first and last 200 in 2:28 and 18 others at 2:32