The Daily News Of Open Water Swimming

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2016 Paralympic Games concluded yesterday in Rio de Janeiro. The 2016 Paralympics featured 152 Swimming events, compared to the 34 Swimming and Open Water events at the Olympics last month. In total, 36 nations garnered at least 1 medal, with 25 garnering at least 1 gold medal. Final

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pieter Christian Jongeneel Anderica of Málaga, Spain completed a double circumnavigation swim of Manhattan Island in New York in 20 hours 15 minutes. Jongeneel’s time broke the existing record of American Skip Storch of 20 hours 56 minutes set in 2007 en route to Storch’s triple circumnavigation swim in

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Weekday holidays may be created in Tokyo to aid events at 2020 Games JIJI SEP 30, 2016 ARTICLE HISTORY PRINT SHARE Tokyo 2020 Olympics officials decided at a liaison meeting Thursday to examine a proposal to turn weekdays during the games into holidays under special legislation to facilitate the

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. LEEDS, UK–At the British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA) Conference last weekend, Melanie Marshall garnered a third-straight Coach of the Year (CotY) honours. Marshall was cited for her work with Adam Peaty. Disability CotY honors went to Glenn Smith, and Youth CotY went to Alan Bircher. A report on the