Category: Open Water
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Russian swimmers swim outdoors in -20C (-4F) temperatures
Some Russian swimmers have carved out a pool in the Moscow River and swim in temperatures of -20C. Report by Genelle Aldred / ITN
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Behold the Russian Winter Swimming Championships Ice Breaking Ceremony
On December 15th, the Ice Swimming community gathered in Tyumen, Siberia for the Russian Championships. Nothing says “Jump in, the water is nice” as well as the revving of a chainsaw.
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Friends push man into water, shark joins in on the fun
Ha ha ha ha ha ha … I don’t want this kind of ‘friends’ |-)
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Winter Swimming – a guide for new or less confident swimmers with Steph Cox
Steph from Chillswim explains how she prepares for cold water swimming. Water temp is around 4 degrees in Windermere on the 11th Dec on a bright and frosty morning – (location of The Big Chill Swim). Steph admits to being an enthusiastic but not a strong swimmer – though she has several winter swimming seasons…
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CC photo #343: The President looking forward to an open water swim
“Like swimming in noodle soup”, he said afterwards, describing the experience of swimming in the shallow fresh water lake Vatnið (“the lake”) in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, back in June 2010. Jon Hestoy here to the right, President of the Faroese Swimming Federation, and to the left Jón Bjarnason, coach of Pál Joensen, helping young…
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Fjord and Cove Swimming in Montenegro
Strel Swimming Adventures has opened a new swimming holiday destination for the coming year. Montenegro offers some of the most spectacular scenery in the Mediterranean, along the Adriatic coast between Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo. In the 1990s it was caught in the brutal wars in the Balkan which horrified the world…
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Historic Irish swimming and nudist club votes to continue ban against women
The Irish Times reports that the exclusively male Sandycove Bathers’ Association will continue to ban women from its ranks, after having voted 24 to 17 not to allow women to join at a specially convened meeting. The Forty Foot in Sandycove has been available to men and women for the last 25 years, but a secluded section to…