Swimmer's Daily

  • About 1,500 competitors on Sunday took part in a Christmas Day fun run in Kosovo while dressed in Santa Claus costumes.

    It’s the seventh time the charity event has been held in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, and aims to raise money for families in need.

    Event organizer Jusuf Islami said around 200 families in total would benefit from the donations.

    Meanwhile, in the German capital, Berlin, members of a swimming club dressed up for their annual Christmas plunge into Orankesee lake.

    The Berliner Seals braved water temperatures of 2°C and air temperatures of 0°C. 

    Around 40 members of the club took part in the ice dip. They spoke of the health benefits of winter ice dipping and swimming all year round.

    See Euronews

  • Brave swimmers braced themselves for the cold as they ran into the sea in Suffolk for the Christmas Day swim.

    This footage shows the festive scene on Lowestoft beach as locals dressed up as elves and in Santa hats splashed into the water.

    Hardy revelers across the country took part in the traditional dip on Christmas morning despite the chilly temperatures.

    According to the Met Office, northern England saw temperatures of 6C at 8 am, while the south was a bit warmer at 10C.

  • Grey Dippers raise over £24,000 by swimming in the Firth of Clyde at Ardrossan South Beach.

    A team of wild swimmers brave the bracing Boxing Day cold to complete the last of more than 300 charity dips to raise more than £22,000 for a food bank.

    Members of the Grey Dippers fundraising group have been taking the plunge at South Beach, Ardrossan, every day since the end of October to generate cash.

    The initial aim was to raise £1,000 for the North Ayrshire Food Bank.

    But the nine-strong team was backed by their local community who dipped into their pockets to send the tally soaring.

  • And finally over to the Czech Republic, where the capital Prague hosted its annual Boxing Day swim.

    Hundreds of winter swimmers braved the chilly waters of the city’s Vltava River on Monday.

    Participants swam races of 100, 300, and 750 meters in the river, where the water temperature was around 5 degrees Celsius.

    The Boxing Day winter swim is held in honor of Albert Nikodem, a Prague goldsmith who popularized winter swimming in the 1920s.

    Participants came from the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the UK, and the United States.

  • Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, World Aquatics said on Thursday.

    Approval from the International Olympic Committee means a maximum of two men can be selected among eight athletes in the team event that is due to include 10 nations.

    Artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming until 2017, has been in the Olympic Games since 1984 and this will be the first time that men have been eligible for the discipline.

    Men have been allowed to compete in the discipline at the World Aquatics Championships since 2015 – at the inaugural mixed duet event in Kazan, Russia, the gold medal was won by Bill May and Christina Jones for the United States.

    At the 2022 World Championships in Budapest, the mixed duet was won by Italians Giorgio Minisini and Lucrezia Ruggiero in a 13-nation contest.

  • India’s Olympic Swimmer Maana Patel talks about things that she wants to feel as a human and not as a swimmer. She talks about the time when she met our honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reminisces about the time when she became the youngest and fastest swimmer in backstroke swimming across the country. Not just that, she broke her own records again and again.

  • Some sports can act as a stress release for many student athletes.

    “To be able to come here, and no matter what I’m dealing with mentally or physically, I can put my face in the water and I can swim and I can kind of forget about all my troubles,” Champion Senior Riley Robinette said.

    But there might not even be a swim team to represent Champion High School if it weren’t for Robinette.

    See XYTV