Photo courtesy of Ed DeCrooy as the swimmers in the RCP Tiburon Mile cross the Raccoon Strait between Angel Island and Tiburon in San Francisco Bay. Photo of Bob Placak and son courtesy of Elliot Karlan at awards ceremony of RCP Tiburon Mile. Photo of dual RCP Tiburon Mile and FINA world champions Jordan Wilimovsky […]

Courtesy of FINA. Double Olympic silver medalist Jazz Carlin from Great Britain is training to replicate the 2012 Olympic success of Oussama Mellouli in both pool and open water. The British freestyler is considering racing in the new women’s 1500m event and the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Carlin recently raced

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The camera work was critical at the last FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race held in China’s Chun’an Qiandao Lake on October 15th. Both the winners of the men’s and women’s race – Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary and Ana Marcela Cunha – finished in the same time as

Courtesy of FINA. The camera work was critical at the last FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race held in China’s Chun’an Qiandao Lake on October 15th. Both the winners of the men’s and women’s race – Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary and Ana Marcela Cunha – finished in the same time as the second-place swimmers

Courtesy of Sarah Thomas and Cliff Crozier with John Batchelder [on left], Catalina Channel, California. In 1989, the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer Vicki Keith swam the first non-freestyle swim across the Catalina Channel. She completed the 20.2-mile channel completely butterfly in 14 hours 53 minutes. There were a handful of other non-freestyle crossings

Courtesy of FINA. The closest race in FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix history took several months. Eventually, the race ended in a dramatic tie. Evgenij Pop Acev (Евгениј Поп-Ацев) of Macedonia won his second career title on the 2017 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix with four solid performances in river, lake and sea

Courtesy of FINA. After getting a feeling for international competitions in 2015 and 2016, including an eighth-place finish in the 25 km marathon swim at the 2016 European Open Water Championships, Barbara Pozzobon came into her own during the 2017 season. On the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix professional marathon swimming circuit, Pozzobon had

Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. When the Illumina Shark Seq’rs Triple Relay Team completed a 15 hour 41 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel on September 29th, a little known achievement was made by Bill Ireland. Ireland was among the 18 swimmers* who made their second attempt on the Catalina Channel.