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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honors Susanne Guesdon

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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honors Susanne Guesdon Courtesy of Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Chris Guesdon and Gary Toner announced Susanne Guesdon as a member of the inaugural Class of 2020 in the Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. They explained, “Susanne Guesdon is a versatile Australian marathon swimming administrator. She has […]

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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honors Roger Bruce

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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honors Roger Bruce Courtesy of Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Chris Guesdon and Gary Toner announced Roger Bruce as a member of the inaugural Class of 2020 in the Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. They explained, “Coach Roger Bruce is Australian Swim Team coach number number 51

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2020-2021 International Winter Swimming Association Calendar

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2020-2021 International Winter Swimming Association Calendar Courtesy of the International Winter Swimming Association. Winter is coming and so is the International Winter Swimming Association season that will open in Jelgava, Latvia on November 7th. This season the International Winter Swimming Association events will not have World Cup status because many of international swimmers are not

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Remembering Penny Palfrey’s Bridging The Cayman Islands On WOWSA Live

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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Penny Palfrey, a mother of three and a grandmother of one from Townsville, Queensland, Australia, committed to the Bridging The Cayman Islands in June 2011 in the Cayman Islands after failing at completing two attempts of swimming from the islands of Oahu to Kauai in the state of

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Alex Meyer Talks About His Classic 2010 World Championship Race On WOWSA Live

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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. The culmination of the 6th FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships on July 23rd 2010 in lac Saint-Jean near Roberval, Québec, Canada was a classic 25 km mano-a-mano dual between Alex Meyer and the then reigning 10 km and 25 km world champion Valerio Cleri of Italy. Meyer

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David Conradie Completes A Fastnet Rock Crossing

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David Conradie Completes A Fastnet Rock Crossing Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 54-year-old Irish swimmer David Conradie described his adventure on September 10th, “Sometimes it takes a legend to trigger the spark of inspiration. Like many, at the end of the spring I emerged from lockdown fat and unfit. I’d pretty much abandoned the

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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honors Graeme Carroll

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Courtesy of Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Chris Guesdon and Gary Toner announced Graeme Carroll as a member of the inaugural Class of 2020 in the Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. They explained, “We introduce coach and contributor Graeme Carroll. In 1986, he became the Head Swim Coach at Warringah Aquatic Centre in

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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honors Melissa Gorman

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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honors Melissa Gorman Courtesy of Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. “When Melissa Gorman beat Olympic champion Larisa Ilchenko in Rome in 2009, it was one of the most unexpected upsets of the 21st century in the open water swimming world,” recalls Steven Munatones. “It was a shock to

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