Open Water

A 16-year-old’s dramatic gold-medal effort led the way for Team Canada on Day 1 of the UANA Junior Open Water Swimming Championships Friday as Kenna Smallegange, of the Burlington, Ont., Aquatic D...

By Claire Alongi, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming is a cool summer activity, right? For many the image of paradise is being surrounded by a cloud of sunscreen while lazing by the ocean or pool...

By Molly Griswold, Swimming World College Intern. Colorful fish reflect off the beams of sunlight. Jellyfish slide past your body and through your fingers. Currents sweep you into the choppy waves. Sh...

The open water competition in the 2019 Pan American Games began with the 10K race from Peru. Ecuador shined with two top-five finishes, including the gold medal. Ecuador’s Esteban Enderica claimed vic...

The open water competition from the 2019 FINA World Championships concluded on Friday with the 25K. France's Axel Reymond won the men's race for his second straight World title in the event and Brazil...

Ten women and ten men have officially been granted the opportunity to race in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in the 10K open water swim. Florian Wellbrock was the first man awarded the honor by winning ...

The swimming portion of the 2019 FINA World Championships opened with the open water men’s 5K. Hungary’s Kristof Rasovzky earned the gold medal with a swim of 53.22.10 to finish 10 seconds ahead of th...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. Swimmers face tougher challenges in open water swimming than in the pool. They deal with extreme water temperatures, uncertain weather and powerful...

2019 ISHOF Honor Open Water Swimmer, Marcy MacDonald completed her 17th crossing of the English Channel on Saturday, July 6th, 2019, on the 25th anniversary of her very first crossing. MacDonald wrote...

By Kate Walter, Swimming World College Intern. The term "marathon swimming" may sound daunting and unfamiliar to those on the outside of the swimming community. It is even intimidating to those within...

By Sarah Berman, Swimming World College Intern. Ben Lecomte doesn't swim for performance accolades: he swims to spur global change. "I'm not an Olympic swimmer. I am an adventurer who likes to swim." ...

By Claire Alongi, Swimming World College Intern.  When people think of going for a swim, they typically picture diving into a 25-meter chlorinated pool instead of a vast expanse of open water. While t...

USA Triathlon today announced a three-way partnership with USA Swimming and U.S. Masters Swimming to host open water swim races as part of two USA Triathlon-owned events this year, the inaugural Legac...

Kristof Rasovszky, from Hungary, and Ana Marcela Cunha, representing Brazil, were the winners of the fourth leg of the 2019 FINA/CNSG Marathon World Series, held in Lake Balaton (HUN). In home waters,...

The third leg of the FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series 2019 today (June 8) in Setubal, Portugal, was won by Yohsuke Miyamoto from Japan and Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha, respectively. Miyamoto clinch...

When she was just 12-years-old, she knew open water swimming was her passion, and she told her younger sister that she would swim the English Channel one day. In high school, Marcella MacDonald swam c...

A Swimming Canada quartet, anchored by Hau-Li Fan, placed second in a team relay race at the LEN Open Water Swimming Cup Friday afternoon at Lac du Causse in Brive, France. Kate Sanderson, Canada’s fi...

David Aubry improved one position since the first leg of the LEN Open Water Cup: the Frenchman was second in Eilat and now won the race in Brive quite convincingly. Among the women, Spain’s Paola Ruiz...

At the 2019 Open Water Nationals in Miami, Florida, USA Swimming teamed with Swiss Timing to use Omega's state of the art timing system for the first time at the Nationals. In year's past USA Swimming...

By Tracie May-Wagner, Swimming World Contributor On Sunday, May 12, at Beau Vallon Beach, on the beautiful north western coast of Mahe, Seychelles, was the second stop of the FINA Marathon Swim World ...