Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference will be held on September 20th – 21st at the famous Mount Stuart Castle on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. The programme will include a swim in Loch Lomond on the 18th, a Scottish banquet and dinner dance on the 19th, […]

Olga Kozydub won the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year after training like few have in terms of distance and racing a total of 307 km (192 miles) throughout the year against the world’s fastest ultra-marathon swimmers. Her spectacular sophomore year on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit was something