The Daily News of Open Water Swimming

The Daily News of Open Water Swimming that covers professional marathon swimming, solo swims, relays, charity swims, ecoswims, mass partici...

Earlier this week, Anne Cleveland announced her Double-Double Channel Swim (i.e., two-way crossing of both the English Channel and Catali...

What a better place for open water swimming than Oceania. The 2010 Oceania Swimming Championships 5K and 10K races will be held in Faleau...

When we observe the start and first initial turns of a mass open water swim, we think of the 3C's: a churning cacophony of competitio...

One of the Oceans Seven channels is the Kaiwi Channel , a 26-mile (42 km) challenging swim from Molokai to Oahu in Hawaii. There are nine...

The International Paralympic Committee conducted its first 5K open water world championship swim in Mar de Plata, Argentina in 2003. The...

Chris Foster is not a swimmer. In fact, he is far from it. Count him almost 7-8 minutes down in the mile swim of the Olympic distance tria...

Courtesy of WOWSA , Huntington Beach , California . Phil White and 11 passionate open water swimming enthusiasts recently established th...

Karen Rogers , whose 10 hour 50 minute 21.5-mile crossing of Lake Tahoe in California last August was nominated as one of the Great Open Wa...

Similar to last year when 13 Olympians competed in the world's largest open water race, the Midmar Mile , Olympic medalists are startin...

Seven-time world professional marathon swimming champion and channel swimmer Shelley Taylor-Smith is splitting her time and talents as bot...

Valerio Cleri, Trent Grimsey, Vladimir Dyatchin and the other top men at the 2009 World Championship 25K race (see results below) picked up ...

Professional marathon swimmer Shelley Clark (shown on left) who has competed at numerous world championships, World Cup and Grand Prix even...

With an estimated 20,000 spectators packing the beach in an electrified atmosphere, 18-year-old Sam Sheppard out-swam and out-ran an accomp...

Anne Cleveland announced her unprecedented "double-double" attempt this August. The 54-year-old La Jolla Cove legend plans to ...

Catalina Channel record holder Todd Robinson of San Diego (8:05 from Catalina-to-mainland) was the subject of a inspirational article in ...

FINA's annual calendar has beautiful photography showcasing all five of its aquatic disciplines: open water swimming , pool swimming, w...

RCP Tiburon Mile champion Kane Radford and top 10K swimmer Alannah Jury will be the headliners at next week's inaugural Epic Swim Fe...

The 25K St. Vincent's SWIM Across the Sound Marathon announced its August 7th date of its 23rd annual race - as well as a new intrigui...

The abilities, endurance and speed of the world's fastest marathon swimming women are impressive. The two close-up videos below from t...

In 14°C (57°F) water under intermittent rain in Puerto Varas y Santiago , Chile, the four-person relay with Eva Fabian just out-touched th...

Courtesy of WOWSA , Huntington Beach , California . If the world of open water swimming has a man behind the scenes, certainly Chris Gue...

Courtesy of WOWSA , Huntington Beach , California . The Cayman Islands Government wrote a nice article about Andrew Smilley 's open ...

Down in Puerto Varas y Santiago , FINA World Cup champion Poliana Okimoto and American Eva Fabian have been trying to stay warm before a ...

There is perhaps no female with greater upside in the elite open water swimming world than Olympic 10K marathon swimmer and 5K world champi...

This lean, focused 21-year-old professional is an emerging - and established - open water swimming superstar . If he continues his upward t...