Category: Winter Swimming
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I Went to the Russian Winter Swimming Championships | Travelling With Russell
The Russian Winter swimming championships are held in different cities across Russia, as part of the FZPR Cup. With over 1600 participents, the event in Moscow, Russia was a highlight of the 2024 Winter Swimming Federation schedule.
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Butler Man Certified World’s Oldest to Swim ‘Ice Mile’ | WJHL
Less than a week after he accomplished the feat, Donald Winters is officially the oldest person in the world ever to swim an “ice mile.”
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Chicago Life Coach Walks on Lake Michigan ‘Ice Pancakes’ in Swim Trunks | New York Post
A Chicago life coach braved single-digit temperatures to walk across “ice pancakes” that formed in Lake Michigan last week, a chill-inducing Instagram video showed. George Donald Miller was clad in just swim trunks, gloves, and socks as he nimbly navigated the flat ice floes along the Windy City’s North Avenue beach Wednesday morning. He eventually…
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Russians Swim in -40 Degrees Celsius Conditions to Mark the Orthodox Epiphany | The Telegraph
Despite freezing weather conditions, believers in Russia’s region of Yakutia marked Orthodox Epiphany on Friday (January 19) by plunging into a hole cut in the ice in air temperatures that reached minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit). Nearly one hundred residents of the subarctic town of Neryungri gathered on the banks of the…
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Chicago Swimmer Exercises in Frigid Lake Michigan in the Middle of Winter | CBS Chicago
Physical fitness is always important – and even in these dark, cold days of winter, it’s good to keep moving. This week, one workout stood out in particular – courtesy of Barton Williams, a Chicagoan taking the “cold plunge” to an entirely level. Barton Williams lives in the same building as CBS 2’s Joe Donlon…
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“Ricky Lake” Has Spent 1,000+ Days Swimming Local Lakes, Rivers | WCCO – CBS Minnesota
Richard Pelleteir says that he’s been swimming in the lakes and rivers of Minnesota and Wisconsin, without so much as a wetsuit.
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Ice-Swimming Enthusiasts Take Plunge at China Winter Festival | ANC
On The Scene: Sub-zero temperatures weren’t deterring enthusiasts from plunging into freezing waters for an icy swim in the Songhua River, which runs through Harbin city in northern China, on Saturday (January 6). The swim sessions, a highlight for festival-goers, are held twice daily during the annual event which runs from December to February.
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Chinese Swimmers Leap Into Frozen River as Part of Annual Festival | AP
The idea of leaping into a river in a city as cold as Harbin in China may be frightening for many people, but not for winter swimmers.