Open Water

Americans Joe Zemaitis, Gracie van der Byl Lead IMSHOF 2025 Class Americans Joe Zemaitis and Gracie van der Byl lead six honor swimmers in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Joining them in being inducted next spring are honor swimmers Simon Ercoli of Italy, Steve Stieve...

Swimming Canada to Join USA Swimming’s 2025 Open Water Nationals Swimming Canada will partner with USA Swimming to use the latter’s 2025 Open Water Nationals to select its national team for the 2025 World Championships. The event will take place April 4-6 at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla. I...

The World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA) has banned Bulgarian swimmer Tsanko Tsankov from future world record ratification, claiming he falsified documents and claimed a false world record swim. Tsankov swam a 100K in the Danube River to celebrate Unification Day on Sept. 6, and later claim...

Swim for the Alligator Lighthouse Open Water Race Continues to Raise Money for Florida Keys Landmark More than 300 swimmers from the United States and several other countries competed in an 8-mile open-water challenge Saturday to raise awareness to fund restoration of an aging lighthouse off the Fl....

Open Water Swimmers Bettina Fabian, Leonie Beck Recovering after Olympic Marathon Swimmers Bettina Fabian of Hungary and Leonie Beck of Germany posted to social media about ill effects from the Olympic marathon swim in Paris’ River Seine. Beck posted to her Instagram stories that she had “vomited 9 ...

World Aquatics Cancels Practice Session in River Seine Despite ‘Good’ Test Results World Aquatics on Tuesday canceled a practice session in the River Seine due to water quality concerns, casting further doubt on the marathon swim of the Paris Olympics being able to be held there. The decision was ma...

Paris Olympics: River Seine Water Quality Forces Men’s Triathlon Postponement The Olympic men’s triathlon has been postponed a day due to water quality in the River Seine, the Paris Olympics announced on Tuesday. The race was due to take place on Tuesday but it has been moved to a 10:45 a.m. start t...

Epic Swim Maui Will Circumnavigate Island While Pushing For Ocean Health, Honoring Duke Kahanamoku Over the next few weeks, 14 open water swimmers from around the world will circumnavigate the island of Maui. The event, entitled Epic Swim Maui, is the first event in the Global Expedition Swim Series...

Maya Merhige, a 16-year-old marathon swimmer has successfully conquered the English Channel  making her one of the youngest swimmers in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Merhige swam the English Channel (20.5 miles or 33 km) in just 11 hours and 39 minutes on July 13, 2024....

Paris Open Water Prep Differs for Mariah Denigan, Katie Grimes Mariah Denigan likes to joke with her teammates that the 1500 freestyle in the pool feels like a sprint. She omitted, perhaps strategically, her teammates’ response to that. But when it came to U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis last mo...

World Aquatics Confirms 13 Additional Swimmers for Olympic 10K Races World Aquatics on Tuesday confirmed 13 additional swimmers for the Olympic open-water races in Paris on the basis of their times in the pool. Among the notable names joining the open water fray are veteran medal contenders Felix Au...

Paris Olympics Reveal Vaires-sur-Marne as Open Water Alternative to Seine The Paris Olympic organizing committee on Friday revealed its backup plan if the Rive Seine is not suitable for open water swimming at the Olympics next month. A Paris 2024 spokesperson told Reuters that the rowing venue at th...

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Ashley Twichell Swims to Highest Finish at Olympic Trials Third place is the toughest place to finish at Olympic Trials, but Ashley Twichell isn't looking at it the same way. Twichell, an open water Olympian, finished third in the 1500 final at trials. "At the time, I thought it was my last race. I ...

Marathon Swimmer Katie Pumphrey to Attempt ‘Bay to Baltimore’ Swim Marathon Swimmer Katie Pumphrey is attempting the “Bay to Baltimore” swim from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The attempt will be made this summer for the Maryland native. (An original window in May was moved ...

USA Swimming, the national governing body (NGB) for the sport of swimming in the United States, today announced its 12-person roster for the 2024 World Aquatics Open Water Junior Championships, which take place September 6-8 in Alghero, Italy. “This will be a great opportunity for these young athle....

Durban, South Africa - Durban's Sarah Ferguson may be best known as a record-breaking endurance swimmer, but her motivation for organising the World Ocean Day Swim on June 8 is way more important than "just" providing a quality sports event in Durban for her fellow swimmers. Ferguson has conquered s...

Viviane Jungblut Misses Brazilian Trials to Support Flood-Ravaged Home State Swimmer Viviane Jungblut is among the high-profile Brazilian athletes taking a step back from their sports to offer support to the flood-ravaged state of Rio Grande do Sul. Jungblut, as well as lightweight double sculls row...

Dylan Gravley Caps Open Water Nationals with 5K Men’s Title Dylan Gravley finished up the 2024 Open Water Nationals by winning the men’s 5-kilometer swim in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday. Gravely, the Las Vegas native and Sandpipers of Nevada alum competing for Sun Devil Swimming, clocked in at 54 minutes,...

Teammates Brinkleigh Hansen, Cobe Hehenberger Win Open Water Nationals Junior Titles  Saint Petersburg Aquatics teammates Brinkleigh Hansen and Cobe Hehenberger won junior titles at the 2024 Open Water Nationals on Saturday. Hansen clocked in at 1 hour, 43 seconds to win the junior girls 5-kilometer...