Courtesy of Peter Schultz, Kryds Isefjorden, Rørvig Åbentvandsfestival, Denmark. 77 out of 97 people completed Kryds Isefjorden (Isefjord Crossing), known as Denmark toughest open water competition. “The event was held on a day where the weather gods pulled the brake.” reported organizer Peter Schultz of Nextchallenge.dk. “The conditions were really tough with strong head current […]

Courtesy of Miguel Vadillo, Lake Erie, Great Lakes. Joshua Reid and Miguel Vadillo long planned and organized the inaugural 20 km Embrace the Challenge, a 20 km cross border swim across Lake Erie between Canada and the USA. The race was originally scheduled for Saturday, August 19th, starting on the eastern Lake Erie from Sturgeon

Photos courtesy of Annie-Claude Roberge, Strait of Gibraltar, Spain to Morocco. Rohan More has always lived his dreams. As a child, he dreamed of completing a crossing of the English Channel. His first major swim was a 35 swim from Dharamtar to the Gateway of India in 7 hours 29 minutes at the raw age

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alexander Studzinski has experienced problems with his shoulders for a decade. His first shoulder surgery occurred in 2008, but he continued to compete on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit for years. His latest shoulder problems began again in April 2015 as he was forced to cut

Courtesy of Jef Mallet, Frazz. Jef Mallett is arguably the best known open water swimmer with the greatest media reach in America. Although he is best known for his comic Frazz that appears in 200 newspapers worldwide, he is an enthusiastic, emerging marathon swimmer who did not finish the 2015 Boston Light Swim, but then

Courtesy of Scott Zornig, Santa Catalina Island, California. There are only 9 spots left for Swim Camp Catalina IV on Santa Catalina Island in Southern California between November 9th to 12th. Camp director Scott Zornig explains, “The price is US$395 until August 31st and increases to US$475 on September 1st. We are also now accepting

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In 1979, four Cape Ann residents swam across Gloucester Harbor in protest of its polluted status. This evolved into an annual Audubon Society-sponsored event to help raise funds for cleaning the harbor (Swim for a Clean Harbor). By 1993, the harbor was deemed clean by the Audubon Society, leading

Courtesy of Oceanic Society, Farallon Islands, California. In the March 1917 to February 1918 edition of Mind And Body, A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education (Volume XXIV), a young 18-year-old nurse named Hazel Cunningham was touted as an outstanding San Francisco Bay area swimmer. Her nickname was Neptune’s Daughter according to the Pacific Coast

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Father Martyn Southall and son Reece Southall are all set to go mano-a-mano against the best ocean swimmers in the Pacific Ocean at the annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Honolulu, Hawaii. 17-year-old surf lifesaving Reece is coached by Brendan Capell, the 2004 FINA 25 km world champion) and has

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jenny Landreth spends time writing and researching about swimming for her books and The Swimming Blog in the Guardian. She recently authored Swell: A Waterbiography. Bloomsbury Publishing describes Swell, “These days, swimming may seem like the most egalitarian of pastimes, open to anyone with a swimsuit – but this