Swimmer's Daily

  • Lewis Pugh, the UN Patron of the Oceans and renowned endurance swimmer, will complete the final leg of his Seven Seas Campaign by swimming up the Thames.

    Nicknamed the Human Polar Bear for his ability to swim long distances in freezing waters, Lewis is swimming from Southend to Gravesend before swimming to the Thames Barrier.

    He’s the first man to swim at the North Pole and over the last four weeks has completed swims in each of the Seven Seas, the Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean, Black, Red, Arabian and the North Sea.

    Read ITV

  • With good help from boyfriend Magnini

  • Olympic Gold Medal winning American swimmer Tyler Clary tested a V8 Supercar at the V8 Supercars Official Driving Experience on Australia’s Gold Coast today as part of his development towards a serious motorsport career.

    Clary has been on the Gold Coast for the last two weeks competing at the Hancock Prospecting Pan-Pacific Championships where he won his Olympic Gold Medal event – the 200m backstroke – and added a silver and bronze medal to his Pan-Pacs haul.

    Despite having never driven a right hand drive car before today, Clary showed impressive speed around the 2.1km circuit at Norwell, which doubles as the V8 Supercars Official Driving Experience and the Performance Driving Centre.

    “A couple of times there I reached for the gear shift with my right hand and banged the door,” Clary laughed. “The V8 Supercar is a lot bigger and heavier than what I’m used to driving too. I’m happy with the times I layed down for my first opportunity in this type of car.”

  • Saturday 30 August 2014, a record number of 3000 swimmers will participate in the 2014 Round Christiansborg and optional Krüger Relay, in the canals around the seat of the Danish Parliament, in the heart of Copenhagen. See svoem.org, Facebook and this nice promo below.

  • She already swam from Cuba to Florida and now super athlete Diana Nyad tells TMZ Sports she has brand new goal, she wants to pull a Forrest Gump and trek across the USA by foot! Nyad was out in L.A. on Monday where she’s getting ready to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of her historic swim, when she told TMZ all about her big plans. Nyad said “I just decided that two years from now, I’m going to walk across America and get 1 million people to do it with me!” And what’s her motivation? Diana says she wants to whip America’s fat butts into shape!

    http://youtu.be/ulfyDp0A_fI

  • Huge thanks to our friends at Boardco for making this video happen, without them it would not have been possible! Boardco specializes in everything water sports related!

    Courtesy of devinsupertramp on YouTube

  • August 31 – September 1 at the Hamdan Sports Complex in Dubai, see FINA

  • China’s two-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Ye Shiwen has a new title: College freshman.

    The 2012 London Games champion in the women’s 200- and 400-metre medleys registered this week at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University under a government program waiving the grueling entrance exam for outstanding athletes.

    The 18-year-old Ye told local media she plans to study law, but will have to balance classes with training for next month’s Asian Games at Incheon, South Korea.

    Read South China Morning Post

  • brianfitzpatrickA five-year-old boy who wrote an “amazing” fan letter to Scottish Commonwealth swimming champion Ross Murdoch has been traced.

    Brian Fitzpatrick’s note reached the swimmer despite being addressed simply to “Ross Murdoch, Commonwealth Champion, Balloch”.

    The 200m Breaststroke gold medal winner asked Twitter users to help him get back in touch with the youngster.

    Ross Murdoch now plans to meet Brian and show him where he trains.

    Read BBC