Thinking of making 2025 the year you take on your first open water challenge? There are countless organised events across the country to choose from, with different distances and difficulty options – ...

World Aquatics has announced the four sites of the Open Water Swimming World Cup for the 2026 season, with Setubal, Portugal ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Following a recent open-water swim in the once-polluted Chicago River, the question was raised whether Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River could host a similar event, and if anybody was ...

Nearly 200 people, including an Olympic qualifier and English Channel swimmers, are expected to compete in the seventh annual mile-long Wilmette Open Water Swim at Gillson Beach on June 14, according ...

World Aquatics has launched, for the first time ever, its Open Water Swimming World Ranking system, creating new and exciting opportunities for athletes and National Federations, it announced on ...

For the first time in nearly a century, hundreds of swimmers plunged into the Chicago River over the weekend. Here's why.

In a study well timed for its summer publication (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), scientists reviewed research related to open-water swimming (Overbury et al. 2023). It will come as little ...

SINGAPORE (AP) — Open water swimming at the World Championships is set to start a day late following two delays in Singapore because of “water quality levels exceeding acceptable thresholds.” World ...

For the first time in nearly a century, swimmers took to the open water of the Chicago River on Sunday. Participants in the Chicago River Swim made their way along a one- or two-mile route downtown.

Over the weekend in Long Beach, Calif., BYU swim and dive participated for the first time ever in the MPSF Open Water ...

A half-dozen swimmers gathered at West Landing Beach in Hampton Bays on a September Tuesday near two swans and a bald eagle, set against the backdrop of the gray sky. The swimmers, in their late 50s ...