Photos courtesy of Elias Lefas at the Navarino Challenge at Navarino Bay in Greece’s Ionian Sea. Navarino Challenge went off flawlessly for its 5th consecutive year, a multi-sport event between October 13th-15th in the Navarino Bay at the port of Pylos. Athletes from 17 countries (Australia, Austria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Afghanistan Swimming Federation has a campaign to create the first Afghanistan National Women’s Swimming Team which should be realized in 2018 – with the unprecedented plan to send a representative to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Sayed Ihsan Taheri (سید احسان الدین طاهری in Persian and سید احسان

Courtesy of Philip Hodges, Cork Distance Week, Ireland. “Philip Hodges published an incredible chart of the marathon swims accomplished over 100 days by the 2017 Cork Distance Week swimmers,” reported founder and instigator Ned Denison. One of the swimmers tells his own tale:, “I’d done my single warm water lake marathon, followed my dream, signed

Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, aQuellé Midmar Mile, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Mike Arbuthnot has gone 44 for 44. The 86-year-old completed his 44th aQuellé Midmar Mile out of the 44 editions held. That kind of consistency and dedication is unparalleled in the open water swimming world. He has done a total of over 80 swims

Upper photo on left shows silver medalist Mario Sanzullo (Italy), gold medalist Marc-Antoine Olivier (France), bronze medalist Timothy Shuttleworth (Great Britain) at the 2017 FINA World Swimming Championships 5 km podium in Lake Balaton, Hungary. Lower photo on left courtesy shows winning French 5 km team of Logan Fontaine, Oceane Maryse Jeannie Cassignol, Aurélie Muller