Courtesy of FINA, Lake Balaton, Hungary. The 2017 FINA World Championships in Lake Balaton start tomorrow with the men’s 5 km. Competition Schedule Saturday, July 15th: 5 km men Sunday July 16th: 10 km women Tuesday, July 18th 10 km men Wednesday, July 19th:: 5 km women Thursday, July 20th: 5 km team relay Friday, […]

Courtesy of Bill Welzien, Key West, Florida. The local Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum in Key West, Florida is interested in making a display about Bill Welzien‘s marathon swimming career. Welzien is closing in on history’s longest Century Swim, only 9 marathon swims away from his 100th open water swim in the same venue:

Courtesy of Canah along the Danube River, Germany. Romanian Avram Iancu continued on his scheduled 60-day stage swim of 2,860 km along the Danube River through Europe. The 41-year-old librarian from Petrosani, Transylvania started his stage swim from Donaueschingen in the Black Forest in Germany. He is now heading into Day 24 as each day

Courtesy of Will Gray, World’s Most Epic Swims. Will Gray penned his list of the World’s Most Epic Swims in the Red Bulletin Magazine: #1. Martin Strel [shown above]: 5,269 Stage Swim of the Amazon in 66 days (Respect Rating of 11) #2. Diana Nyad: 177 km Cuba to Florida Swim in 52 hours 54

Courtesy of Neda el Món, Estartit, Spain. Neda el Món organizes the Zoggs Illes Medes Relays during the traditional Neda el Món Medes Islands TV3 Marathon crossing weekend in L’Estartit, Spain. It is a four-person 4×800-meter relay in water expected to be around 19-20ºC. For more information and registration, visit here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A lot is at stake and up for discussion, both in the short term and long term, both domestically and globally, when American President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron meet this week in Paris. The fierce competition between Los Angeles and Paris continues as both cities are

Courtesy of Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia. Ronnie Wong, the chairman of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee [see here], oversaw the FINA Open Water Swimming Technical Congress in Budapest, Hungary today. He and his colleagues approved the new rules of the respective disciplines for the period 2017-2021. 1. Removal of the Chief Race Judge’s

Courtesy of Phil White and Arik Thormahle, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. There may not be a busier open water swimmer on the planet. Between coordinating her work schedule with her flights and logistics for her ice swimming and marathon swimming exploits, Jaimie Monahan is a year-round, non-stop whirlwind of activity. On July 10th, she completed a