Event overview Big Swim Held on the last Sunday of January each year with a distance of 2.5 – 2.8 km, it is known as The Big Swim because it is BIG. Conditions vary from dead calm to testing south-easterly or uncomfortable nor’easter’s, which can arrive early in summer with swells from all directions making…
Event overview Sun Moon Lake Swim The annual Soon Moon Lake swim has been held every year, around the Mid-Autumn Festival, since 1983, with swimmers from Taiwan and overseas coming together to take part. The event starts at Chaowu Pier in Sun Moon Lake and is about 3,000 meters in length. It was officially included…
Event overview Bosphorus Swim The Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim is a unique annual open-water swimming race held in Istanbul, Turkey. The participants swim across the Bosphorus Strait, effectively crossing from the Asian side of Istanbul to the European side. The Bosphorus swim, which covers a distance of approximately 6.5 kilometers (4 miles), is renowned for its…
Event overview El Cruce El Cruce swim or Cruce Cancún to Isla Mujeres, is one of the World’s Top 100 Open Water Swims and the World’s Top 100 Island Swims. It is a beautifully two-race event from Cancún to Isla Mujeres in Quintana Roo in southern Mexico. Swimmers can choose between a 3.8 km and 10 km ocean course in crystal-clear water tropical waters…
Event overview The Midmar Mile The Midmar Mile is the world’s largest open water swimming event, a swimming race held at the Midmar Dam north of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Each year, it draws thousands of competitors, from serious international athletes and Olympic medallists to purely recreational swimmers. It gains its name from the location (Midmar Dam) and…
Event overview Oceanman returns in 2025 to Lago d’ Orta for another set of thrilling open water swim events, set to take place on June 14th. Choose your distance and join OCEANMAN Lago d’Orta together with hundreds of swimmers and experience the joy found through effort. Lake Orta is a lake in northern Italy, west…