Category: Open Water

Saturday 29th of October will be the inaugural date of the 1st MARNATON SwimRun Cap de Creus. A challenge that combines the two disciplines of running and swimming consecutively over a marked course comprising 18km running and 5km swimming. The adventure will start in the Port of Roses, either in pairs or individually, participants will…

There’s something special about ultra-swimming, it seems. In 2014, for example, Knechtle published a paper looking at 30 years of finishing times for the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, a 28.5-mile loop around the perimeter of Manhattan. On average, the best women were 12 to 14 percent faster than the best men. Another study, published in…

A Japanese man aged 73 becomes the world’s oldest person to swim across the country’s Tsugaru Strait, braving unpredictable currents and stinging jellyfish in his quest.

ÖTILLÖ is a unique race in a unique place. It is the origin of the Swimrun movement where teams of two race together from island to island (Ö till Ö). The teams swim between the 26 islands and run over them. The total distance is 75 kilometres of which 10 km are open-water swimming and…

Ocean safety officials said they brought in more than 300 swimmers who were either too tired to finish the course or make it to shore on their own.