Swimmer's Daily

  • This week will witness the first competitions at the annual age-group continental championships: Europe’s young hopefuls in diving and synchronised swimming will contest for the medals in Finland, while the swimmers take their marks next week. LEN offers free live streaming from all events.

    As a tradition, around Midsummer Night the junior European Championships in the respective disciplines kick off. This year the divers are the first to start, Helsinki welcomes the best youth and junior athletes from today.

    In fact, the events return to Finland after eight years and just as in 2010, the diving and swimming competitions are to be held in Helsinki while the synchronised swimmers can perform their routines in Tampere. All action in the coming days and next week will be livestreamed on the LEN website.

    As for the other disciplines, Malta, also a busy host of age-group continental showcases from time to time, will stage the junior open water Europeans in mid-July. The water polo tournaments will come at the end of the summer season, as usual. This time the U19 boys shall play in Minsk (BLR), while the girls meet in Funchal (POR), the birthplace of Portugal football icon Cristiano Ronaldo.

    2018 Junior European Championships – Schedule

    Swimming – LIVE STREAMING HERE
    Helsinki (FIN) – 4-8 July

    Diving – LIVE STREAMING HERE
    Helsinki (FIN) – 25 June-1 July

    Synchronised swimming – LIVE STREAMING HERE
    Tampere (FIN) – 26 June-1 July

    Open water swimming
    Malta (MLT) – 13-15 July

    Water polo, men
    Minsk (BLR) – 26 August-2 September

    Water polo, women
    Funchal (POR) – 9-16 September

    Results, Schedule, Entry list are linked here

    For additional information please visit www.len.eu

  • Local swimming clubs are making a splash this summer by expanding the traditional definition of team. Madeline Westberg has the story.

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  • On Saturday, June 9th, 175 swimmers and numerous volunteers gathered at Lake Minnewaska for the inaugural “Terry Laughlin Celebration Swim” — the first open water memorial event for Terry this season, put on by Dave Barra and his organization, New York Open Water (NYOW). After a relatively cool May and early June, we were lucky enough to be graced with warm, sunny weather and a water temperature of about 70 degrees. Designed as a non-competitive event, the swim was a triangle course of 0.75 miles, in which participants were invited to swim whatever distance they desired in the allotted time of 3 hrs, from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. Many swimmers chose to do a quick sprint distance with just one loop of the course, while a surprisingly large number swam continuous loops until the clock ran out. It was a relaxed and convivial atmosphere– one Terry would have certainly reveled in– and the swimmers were extremely well-supported by the volunteers for the event.

    Read Total Immersion

  • Human Access Project’s River Hugger Swim Team is a recreational protest swim bringing awareness of the swimmability and extreme deficit of access to the edge of the Willamette River in downtown Portland, Oregon. The opening day swim of 2018 the River Huggers had a special guest joining – Mayor Ted Wheeler.

  • A record 1,537 naked bodies galloped down a Hobart beach in chilly 7C in the annual mad dash of Dark Mofo’s winter solstice nude swim. It was ‘refreshing’ and ‘invigorating’, participants said, dressed only in red swimming caps

  • It’s swim to survive day in Canada.

    And students from the peace river south school district, not only beat the heat by being in water–

    They also dipped their toes in to a new life saving experience.

    CJDC’s Dalia Ashry with more.

  • “Because I’m blind, I’m more aware of where I am in the water.”