Open Water

Guest Editorial: Steps Away from Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale Honors Swimming’s Greatest Fraud By Daniel Slosberg If the City of Fort Lauderdale’s International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) ever completes construction of its new home, visitors will be able to learn about the sport’s greatest champ...

 Holiday Gift Guide: Gear, Gadgets, and Tech for Every Swimmer The holiday season is here, and we’re diving into our annual Swimming World Holiday Gift Guide series with our favorite gifts for every type of swimmer. From performance suits and goggles to the latest training tools and tech accessories...

Los Angeles 2028 Aquatics Schedule: Triathlon Gets First Medals, Water Polo Gets Early Start The schedule for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics dropped on Wednesday, 975 days away from the Opening Ceremony on July 14, 2028. It gives athletes aspiring to the games concrete targets to aim at, and can help...

International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Announces 11 in Class of 2026 The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame announced 11 honorees in the class of 2026 to be inducted in a spring ceremony. The 2026 honor swimmers are Millie Gade Corson, Andy Donaldson, Maria Digna Ezcurra de Ortellado...

Diana Nyad to be Honored by City of Fort Lauderdale with Historic Marker The City of Fort Lauderdale will host a ceremony on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. at Las Olas Oceanside Park to unveil a Florida State Historic Marker honoring world-renowned endurance swimmer Diana Nyad.  The cerem...

Swim for Tomorrow: Two UK Students to Swim English Channel to Protect Rainforests In a powerful act of youth-led environmental action, two 17-year-old students from Sevenoaks School in the UK are preparing to swim 66 kilometers in a school pool – the full distance of an English Channel crossing – to...

Schedule Released for 2026 Open Water Swimming World Cup World Aquatics has announced the four stops of the Open Water Swimming World Cup, which will mark the 20th year of the tour. The series will begin with racing in the Red Sea and then shift to Europe for the final three legs. Racing is schedule...

Cal Baptist Men Repeat, Rice Women Win MPSF Open Water Championships The Cal Baptist men’s team won its second straight MPSF Open Water Championship on Saturday, while the Rice women claimed their first title. CBU scored 135 points to lift the title again at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California ...

Singapore’s Chua Jia Long Completes Open Water Triple Crown in Record 23 Days Chua Jia Long of Singapore has completed the three Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in a record 23 days, culminating this week. Chua swam the 32.2-kilometer Catalina Channel swim in California on Sept. 5, the 20 Bridges...

Can Women Beat Men in Marathon Swimming? By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. Swimmers have biological differences that affect their performance according to their sex. Women have lower hemoglobin levels, oxygen supply, and do not develop as much muscular power. Therefore, in sprint ...

Olivia Smoliga, Becca Mann Win First Chicago River Swims in Nearly a Century The Chicago River hosted its first open water swim since 1926 on Sunday, and Olympian Olivia Smoliga made a big splash in her hometown. Smoliga won the non-wetsuit 1-mile race on Sunday near her home of Glenview. The river ...

David Betlehem, Klaudia Tarasiewicz Win European Open Water Cup Race in Barcelona David Betlehem of Hungary and Poland’s Klaudia Tarasiewicz won on Saturday on the European Aquatics Open Water Swimming Cup stop in Barcelona. The race in Port Vell is the fourth stop on the five-city tour. The series ...

Endurance Swimmer Lewis Pugh on the Mindset Behind Conquering the Impossible By The Champions Speakers Agency Lewis Pugh is a world-renowned endurance swimmer, maritime lawyer, and ocean advocate—emerging as one of the most compelling peak performance speakers today. Often dubbed the "Sir Edmund Hil...

Seth Baetzold was determined to get another shot at the English Channel. In 2022, the Minnesota native was ready to attempt the crossing, but the conditions were not right and it was scratched. "I returned to Minnesota with disappointment but not defeat," Baetzold said. That attitude paid off as he ...

Longtime open water swimmer Alex Kostich made history on Aug. 5, crossing Lake Tahoe in 4 hours, 28 minutes, 55 seconds, the fastest crossing time, according to the World Open Water Swimming Association. The 12-mile trek across was what the open water community calls the "True Width" of Lake Tahoe. ...

Lithuanian endurance athlete and award-winning animation director Meinardas Valkevičius successfully completed a historic swim across the Baltic Sea. He is the first documented person to cross  from Kristianopel, Sweden, to Palanga, Lithuania, a journey of 366 km that spanned 21 days. Valkevičius be...

Three Open Water Swims to Complete in the Florida Keys Open Water swims take place weekly all across the United States. From lakes to oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, open water swimming offers an outlet for retired swimmers, current swimmers, and serious competitors alike. Florida – particularly the F...

Why Open Water Swimming Deserves More Attention in the U.S.  At the break of dawn, a group of swimmers step into a quiet lake, scanning the open horizon. There are no lane lines, no black lines on the bottom of the pool. Simply the water, wind, and the unknown. This is open water swimming. It is raw...

11 Swimmers Complete Long Island Sound 10K for Swim Across America Eleven open water swimmers last Saturday completed a 10-kilometer swim across Long Island Sound to raise more than $2 million for Swim Across America’s fight against cancer. The group of four women and seven men swam 6.21 miles from ...

Adult swimmers 18+ are finding coaching, community, and fitness in Masters programs nationwide. First, relax: you don’t need to be “a master” to join. Masters Swimming is simply organized, coached swimming for adults. Whether you want structured fitness, race‑ready training, or a friendly lane commu...