Open Water

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...

An Inside Look at the Yangtze River Crossing Festival On July 16, 2025, the Chinese city of Wuhan made waves with the 50th Yangtze River Crossing festival, an exhilarating yet challenging 1800-meter swim across the Yangtze, the third largest river in the world. Seventy international elite athletes, ...

Trans Tahoe Relay 2025 Results & Recap: Top Teams, Rivalries, and What’s Next July 21, 2025 Race‑Day Overview At sunrise on July 19, more than 230 relay teams and solo swimmers dove into Lake Tahoe’s 64+ °F water at Sand Harbor, Nevada, to begin the 11‑mile crossing to Skylandia Beach, California. ...

World Championships: Florian Wellbrock Anchors German Open Water Relay to Gold, Completes Sweep With Fourth Gold For the last six years, Florian Wellbrock has posted masterful results in both the pool and open water, navigating between the two very different formats more effectively than perhaps any...

World Championships: Florian Wellbrock Caps Sweep of Open Water Events with Knockout Decision; Ichika Kajimoto Breaks Through Already the champion of the 5k and 10k open-water events, Germany's Florian Wellbrock completed a sweep of the individual disciplines at the World Championships on Saturday. ...

World Championships: Florian Wellbrock, Moesha Johnson Double Up with 5k Titles Make it World Championships doubles for Germany's Florian Wellbrock and Australia's Moesha Johnson, as the open-water stars captured gold medals in the 5k events on Friday in Singapore. The latest victories from Wellbroc...

Catherine Breed Dives in for Lake Tahoe Swim to Prepare for 'Swim California' in 2026 Former Cal All-American Catherine Breed, ultra‑endurance swimmer and founder of Sea Dreamers, has embarked on a swimming circumnavigation of Lake Tahoe beginning July 16, 2025, from Skylandia Beach. This 60-plus .....

World Championships: Women's 10k Open-Water Event Postponed Due to Poor Water-Quality Levels One day before open-water competition was set to begin at the World Championships in Singapore, World Aquatics and the Singapore 2025 Organizing Committee have announced that the women's 10k event has been p...

Hundreds of swimmers and volunteers are gearing up to dive in and make waves at the 7th annual Swim Across America – Motor City Mile open water swim on Friday, July 11, 2025, at the Belle Isle Beach House in Detroit. Participants can choose from .25-mile, .5-mile, 1-mile or 2-mile courses, and land ...