In 2022 Robin Lang attempted to swim the English Channel and swam for 13½ hours and 27 miles, mostly at night and sometimes during thunderstorms.

This was the case in 2024, when the swim was cancelled mid-way after weather conditions deteriorated, causing thousands of swimmers to immediately pull out of the race. Several swimmers were rescued ...

As thousands of people prepare to tackle Western Australia's iconic Rottnest Island Swim, rough weather is threatening to grind it to a halt just 48 hours before it begins.

An event is set to be held to mark the 150th anniversary of the first successful swim across the English Channel. Captain Matthew Webb arrived in France at the end of his milestone 22-hour Channel ...

Rottnest Channel Swim Association (RCSA) organisers have released an update in the lead-up to the event saying they are “closely monitoring the weather fblackst”. Individual skippers of the boats used ...

For a middle-aged guy with a wife, four children, a full time job, six chickens, two dogs and a rabbit, Jake Dolce of Rye Brook manages to spend a lot of time swimming. His love of the sport is a ...

Just over a year ago, Anchorage’s Jordan Iverson set out to accomplish a feat that only a few hundred people in the world and just one other Alaskan have ever done: complete the open-water swimming ...

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — Early Labor Day morning, Lynn Rasmussen and her group — The Faux Fur-sters — shed their warm, namesake coats to reveal wetsuits. They approached the open door of Columbia Gorge ...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WDTN) — A Yellow Springs woman has made history becoming only the second woman in Ohio to ever complete a solo English Channel swim. Yellow Springs native Amy Wamsley has ...