Swimmer's Daily

  • Mykhailo Romanchuk is one the fastest 1500m swimmers the world has ever seen. Let’s take a look at his technique including the very unique ‘karate chop’, that may actually work to his advantage.

  • Swim with seals: “Join the experienced team from Offshore Adventures for an experience of a lifetime. This one and a half hour adventure starts with an adrenaline pumping beach launch into the sea, followed by an amazing boat ride along the scenic coastline to the Cape fur seal colony. There you will get to snorkel and interact with the oceans most loved character and see them playfully swimming in their natural environment.”

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  • Paralympic swimming star Elena Krawzow achieved another victory but this time outside the pool, after getting on the cover of the German Playboy magazine’s October edition.

    On Wednesday, the athlete was seen swimming at her training session in Berlin’s Sportforum Hohenschonhausen. She later skimmed through the famous magazine she did a cover for, going through her nude photos and interview.

    “When I received a shooting offer, I didn’t think for long. I just wanted to use this chance to be the first Paralympic player on the Playboy cover and to motivate and encourage other women, to show that people with disabilities can do it too,” said Krawzow.

    She added that she would have never expected herself to take part in a Playboy photo session. Nevertheless, she noted that she enjoyed the process and was happy with the result.

    “I was very surprised that I received such positive and motivating feedback. My colleagues and friends were of course very proud and overjoyed,” the Berlin-based swimmer continued.

    The athlete also talked about the challenge of doing a photo shoot when you are a visually-impaired person.

    “I don’t see a camera, I don’t see a camera operator. That means that a photographer has to navigate me the whole time. When I had to look straight in the camera, he had to say ‘now a bit on the right, now a bit on the left,” she explained.

    Krawzow is the London 2012 Paralympic silver medallist who set a new world record in the women’s 200m breaststroke.

    She was seven when she was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a genetic eye disorder, which caused progressive vision loss and left the girl with three percent vision.

    At the moment, she is recovering from a shoulder injury and preparing for upcoming tournaments, including the postponed Tokyo Paralympics.

  • Ullswater Swim Place provides boat support for length of lake swims One-Way and Two-Way. Plus qualifying swims for the English Channel.

  • Swimming in waves is an adventure in itself. We didn’t go far but it was an exciting swim. Please swim within your abilities and choose places/conditions where it is safe for you. Understand allow for the effects of tidal streams, wind, and other environmental and objective hazards.

  • Twenty years ago, Eric ‘the Eel’ Moussambani became a global star after swimming a 100-meter freestyle alone in the Olympic pool in Sydney so slowly that it appeared he might sink. Moussambani was the first swimmer from Equatorial Guinea, a nation with a population at the time of less than 1 million, to compete in the Olympics. He describes his remarkable journey to sporting fame, an unlikely ending for someone who, in his own words, arrived in Sydney not knowing how to swim.

  • Katie McLaughlin is a member of the LA Current. She specializes in 100-200 Free and 100-200 Fly. She swam for historical Mission Viejo growing up and the University of California in college.