Year: 2014
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Chloe McCardel finishes 128 km World Record swim in the Bahamas
Australian marathon swimmer Chloe McCardel has successfully completed a world record 126km swim in the Bahamas. McCardel’s support team says the 42 hour effort between two islands is the longest open-water solo, continuous marathon swim in history. McCardel’s team say her effort surpasses a similar record set by Australian-British swimmer Penny Palfrey in 2011. Read…
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Record number of athletes register for Doha 2014 FINA World SC Championships
With just over a month to go before the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), Qatar is already setting records as an unprecedented 1,300 swimmers have registered their interest in competing at Hamad Aquatic Centre. Also, more than 500 team officials have registered to participate in the event. As of yesterday, 174 countries will be…
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Swimming is the UK’s real national sport
Sport England’s Active People Survey shows that participation in football continues to decrease from 4.97% to 4.33% of the population and that 94% of participants are male. In fact, if walking is excluded, swimming is the national sport for participation, and 64% of participants are female. Running and cycling, in which the sexual division of…
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Xmetrics – World’s First Activity Tracker For Swimmers
Swimmers’ dream is to have an easy to use device to keep tracks of their performance, such as laps, time count, frequency monitoring etc. With Xmetrics this dream comes to reality: fixed at your goggles, just on the back of your head, it provides a customizable real time audio feedback directly while swimming. See Indiegogo
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Monster Energy: Ryan Hipwood ‘The Right’
‘The Right’. The world’s most dangerous and unpredictable wave. Watch on as Monster Energy’s Ryan ‘Hippo’ Hipwood returns to conquer the wave that in 2012 nearly took his life. Courtesy of Monster Energy on YouTube
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The Complete Atlanta 1996 Olympic Film | Olympic History
The official Olympic film of the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games in it’s entirety is now here on the official Olympic YouTube channel. Swimming starts at 2:03:00
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Stig Severinsen Swimming with Icebergs
Swimming inside an iceberg looks amazing because the ice looks like glass and that’s crazy, and because it kind of resembles an underwater version of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Or at least, like a crystal palace. National Geographic shows us how a free diver explores the ice cold waters below. See Sploid http://youtu.be/s5fysX2IQaA
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The perfect joy of swimming and running through London
In The Swimmer, John Cheever’s celebrated 1964 short story [pdf], Neddy Merrill decides to swim home via a dozen or so of his neighbours’ pools. Of course, to link this chain of water, he has to run across lawns, through woods and down busy roads. Inspired by Neddy’s watery journey, two south Londoners, Will Watt…
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Christian Sprenger eyes Rio after tough year
Reigning world-champion breaststroker Christian Sprenger is determined to shake off a major shoulder injury in time for what will likely be his last Olympic Games. The 28-year-old fell apart at Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, failing to make the 100m breaststroke final and swimming three seconds under his personal best. He blamed shoulder issues, which had started…