Swimmer's Daily

  • Five time Guinness World Record holder and one of Stan Lee’s Superhumans, Martin Strel, swims for peace, friendship and clean water. #strelworldswim

    Strel’s World Swim begins March 22, 2016.

    https://youtu.be/7-uQRXSmy3Q

  • Paramount and Jerry Bruckheimer have tapped Lily James to portray Gertrude Ederle in a movie about the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

    Bruckheimer is producing and Jeff Nathanson is adapting the script from Glenn Stout’s book “Young Woman and the Sea,” which chronicles Ederle’s 1926 swim across the 21 mile stretch of water at the age of 20. Nathanson will exec produce.

    Ederle took up distance swimming after she had won a gold medal and two bronzes in the 1924 Olympics by swimming 22 miles from Battery Park in New York to Sandy Hook, N.J. Ederle began her Channel crossing at Cap Gris-Nez in France and came ashore at Kingsdown, Kent, 14 hours and 34 minutes later — the fastest time ever for a crossing.

    Ederle was greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York City when she returned home, and played herself in the movie “Swim Girl, Swim.”

    Read Variety

    Photo by Gage Skidmore

  • Wearing a life jacket is important even if you’re a strong a swimmer. Rivers aren’t as smooth like most boaters think. As friends go out on a raft for a fun adventure on the river, they suddenly find themselves in the cold, frigid, rough waters. The raft flips over and tragically, they lose a friend downstream. As a rescue team works into the night to search for the missing rafter, they realize that he may not have been lost had he worn his life jacket.

  • Swim The Suck The Movie 2015 – 6th Annual 10 mile race in the Tennessee River Gorge.

  • The swimming program at Malaysia’s Beautiful Gate Foundation helps the disabled transform their lives and regain strength through water therapy. (http://www.operationchange.com)

  • Australian swimming sensation and five-time gold medal winner at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Ian Thorpe, spoke to News24 Live about the fresh ‘pool’ of SA swimming talent. Watch.

    Thorpe is currently in Cape Town as a guest speaker at the World Sports Values Summit for Peace and Development.

    We also ask him about the significance of Durban hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

    See News24

  • After four failed attempts, Diana Nyad emerged onto the shores of Key West, Florida, after completing a 110-mile, fifty-three-hour, record-breaking swim through shark-infested waters from Cuba. Why, at age 64, was she able to achieve what she could not as a young Olympian? She shares her unforgettable journey – physical, spiritual, emotional, psychological –a triumphant tale about facing fears, following a passion, and living life with no regrets. A sports broadcaster filing for NPR, Fox Sports, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and the New York Times, Nyad is one of our most compelling storytellers.

  • 100m and 200m back World champion Mitchell Larkin (AUS) crowned a hugely successful meet by posting the best time in the world this year in the 200m backstroke (1:53.34), as the Tokyo leg of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015 drew to a close tonight in the Japanese capital. This was Larkin’s second win of the meet as he won the 100m back on Day 1.

    Still on the Australian side, Emily Seebohm (AUS) topped the backstroke events, each time winning the duel with “Iron Lady” Katinka Hosszu (HUN). Together with Larkin, their successes allowed Australia to collect five golds and a silver in Tokyo.