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Honors for Sharon van Rouwendaal and Connor Buck

The 50th edition of the aQuellé Midmar Mile, one of the world’s largest open-water races with nearly 800 participants took place from February 9th to 12th.

The aQuellé Midmar Mile is an annual open water swimming event that takes place in South Africa. It is considered one of the largest open water swimming events in the world and has been held since 1974.

On February 6, 2023, the world of swimming lost a long-time ambassador in 96-year-old Greta Andersen. One of the greatest swimmers of all time, Andersen burst onto the world’s stage when she won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle at the 1948 London Olympics. When she returned home to Copenhagen Denmark, she was a national hero.

After moving from her native Denmark to Long Beach, California, in 1953, she found she needed to make a living. She met Tom Park, a record-setting Catalina Channel swimmer, who convinced her she had what it took to be a successful marathon swimmer.

This Egyptian battleship tore through open-water marathon swimming with ease, finesse and generosity

Heroes of swimming would like to issue an apology. Some weeks ago, we described Johnny Weissmuller as the greatest swimmer ever. We may have misled you, and if we did, we're sorry.

Who, though, is Johnny's rival for Heroes of swimming's affections? An Egyptian swimmer called Abdel Latif Abu Heif: a legend not of the pool, but of the open water. If you haven't heard of him, you're not alone. Outside his native country – where streets and children were named after him, and he was feted wherever he went – Abu Heif's name is familiar only to a small circle of open-water marathon-racing fans.

When a great white shark stole a flipper from freediver Callum Stewart, he felt terror, curiosity and a deep love for his family – all in the space of 30 seconds.

A week before a great white shark took my diving fin, I went diving with nurse sharks on the New South Wales south coast. It was epic. I’ve always really liked sharks and was interested in seeing them in the wild. From what I’ve been reading and hearing, sharks are really not interested in attacking humans.

Yet the earliest humans from over 100,000 years ago taught themselves how to swim, for food and for pleasure. There is a long history of human swimming for utility and leisure, amply recorded in pictures from the earliest cave drawings and folk narratives.

The purpose of this report is to retrieve, present and analyze the historical data of Diana Nyad’s Cuba to Florida swim in 2013. To retrieve this data, 650+ email exchanges, 36 Zoom calls, fifteen interviews were conducted and over 2000+ photos, over 100 videos, crew statements and over 50 documents were recovered.

Part 1 of this report examines the swim

The evidence from the observer and navigator logs, archival photos, and video, present at least one log entry or more and/or photo or video for each hour for all 53 hours of the swim. Gaps in observer log reporting is cross checked and supplemented with photo and/or video evidence.

De Engelse arts Mark Harper weet het zeker: regelmatig ijsbaden kan helpen tegen depressies, artrose, diabetes en darmziekten. Hij werkt als anesthesioloog in Engeland en Noorwegen. Op beide plaatsen zoekt hij aan het begin van de dag open water op.

IJszwemmen is één van de uitdagendste sporten ter wereld. Bij ijszwemmen leg je een afstand af in water dat kouder is dan 5 graden Celsius. Is het iets warmer, dan heet het Winterzwemmen. Bodegraver Theo van der Meer staat, met 17 andere Nederlanders, in de startblokken voor het WK ijszwemmen dat deze week in de Franse Alpen plaatsvindt.

Iris van Aurich uit Ermelo gaat deelnemen aan het WK IJszwemmen. Dit jaar wordt dit georganiseerd in Samoëns Frankrijk van woensdag 11 tot en met zondag 15 januari. 

Als bestuur van IISA Nederland maken we hierbij het team bekend welk Nederland zal vertegenwoordigen tijdens het V IISA WK IJszwemmen in Samoëns, Frankrijk. Het WK vindt plaats van 11 t/m 15 januari 2023. 

Wanneer de deelnemende Nederlanders zullen gaan starten kun je lezen in de complete startlijst, welke als bijlage is toegevoegd.

Het WK en dus alle Nederlandse zwemmers zijn te volgen via de livestream van de IISA welke je >>HIER<< kunt gaan zien.

Swimming induced pulmonary oedema (SIPE) is a condition that causes severe, sudden breathlessness during open water swimming. It appears to be fairly rare, but is seen more often as the popularity of open water swimming increases.

Swimming-induced pulmonary oedema involves the accumulation of fluid in the lungs of swimmers without it having been inhaled.

Zwemster Sharon van Rouwendaal heeft naast de eindzege in de wereldbeker openwater gegrepen. De regerend wereldkampioene op de 10 kilometer eindigde in de laatste race van dit jaar in het Israëlische Eilat als vijfde. De zwemster uit Soest moest haar grote concurrente Ana Marcela Cunha voor laten gaan.

Zwemmer Lewis Pugh heeft ruim 120 kilometer afgelegd om aandacht te vragen voor het afsterven van koraalriffen. De Brits-Zuid-Afrikaanse activist zwom in zestien dagen via de Rode Zee van Saoedi-Arabië naar Egypte.

Een Britse avonturier heeft ruim twee dagen lang non-stop door Loch Ness in Schotland gezwommen. Daarmee brak de 36-jarige Ross Edgley het record voor openwaterzwemmen in het beroemde Schotse meer.