Category: Winter Swimming
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Raleigh Skyhouse apartment residents swim in rooftop pool during winter storm
Skyhouse residents have an “adult snow day” in the rooftop heated pool 23 stories above downtown Raleigh’s icy streets Friday, January 22, 2016 in Raleigh, N.C. See The News & Observer
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In Russia, Epiphany Comes With A Shockingly Cold Swim
Tuesday was an important holiday in the Russian Orthodox Church: Epiphany, which celebrates the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan. Russian believers mark the event by re-enacting that baptism in ponds and rivers, and since Russia is far north of the Jordan, that means plunging into freezing water through holes cut in the ice.…
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Swimming under the ice in Norway
Swimming under the ice january 16th 2016 on Brakstadvatnet a little north of Bergen. The air was -10 c below and the ice was around 15 cm thick.
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Meet the first-ever world champion ice swimmer
Murmansk – it’s in the extreme northwest of Russia, it’s the only city above the Arctic Circle, and it has an average annual temperature of -1°C. It was the perfect place for world-renowned distance swimmer Christof Wandratsch to claim the title of Ice Swimming World Champion. See REDBULL
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Murmansk 2015 1km Ice Swimming World Champs
1st Ice Swimming World Championships, 1km fastest heat, 20.03.2015 Murmansk Lane 1 Evgeni Rabinovich Lane 2 Sergio Salomone Lane 3 Craig Lenning Lane 4 Christof Wandratsch Lane 6 Henri Kaarma Lane 7 Albert Sobirov Lane 8 Eduard Khodakovski
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Russia holds first world championship in ice swimming
The first ever world championship in ice swimming was held in the Russian Arctic Circle on March 20-22. RBTH talked with some of the participants in Murmansk about overcoming their limits and asked them whether sports can help resolve political differences. Read Russia Beyond The Headlines
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Swimming the Antarctic in a Speedo
Deb Matejicka has jumped in some cold water, but this is next level.
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