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 ...

SARASOTA - Fifteen miles in, Allen Hillman was in “the zone,” that place of total focus in the present moment. The 55-year-old Sarasota resident remained in this ...

They’re out there, and every now and then you bump into one: Ordinary people who do extraordinary things. Amy Mazur, recently retired and about to turn 63, is such a person. She plans to swim the ...

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 ...

Jennifer Whitlock decided three years ago she wanted to swim the English Channel, and, after years of training, she will finally have her chance to make the famous open water swim in September.

In August 1926, American champion swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, completing the 21-mile feat in 14 hours and 34 minutes—a record that would stand ...

It almost felt like an out-of-body experience. And that was refreshing, because every inch of jellyfish-stung Michelle Goodwin was sore and exhausted as she swam toward the shore of Northern France. A ...

It almost felt like an out-of-body experience. And that was refreshing, because every inch of jellyfish-stung Michelle Goodwin was sore and exhausted as she swam toward the shore of Northern ...