Category: Winter Swimming

This year’s Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver marks the tradition’s 103rd year. Over 5,000 people registered for the event on English Bay. Angela Bower speaks to this year’s participants.

About 1,500 competitors on Sunday took part in a Christmas Day fun run in Kosovo while dressed in Santa Claus costumes. It’s the seventh time the charity event has been held in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, and aims to raise money for families in need. Event organizer Jusuf Islami said around 200 families in total would…

Brave swimmers braced themselves for the cold as they ran into the sea in Suffolk for the Christmas Day swim. This footage shows the festive scene on Lowestoft beach as locals dressed up as elves and in Santa hats splashed into the water. Hardy revelers across the country took part in the traditional dip on…

Grey Dippers raise over £24,000 by swimming in the Firth of Clyde at Ardrossan South Beach. A team of wild swimmers brave the bracing Boxing Day cold to complete the last of more than 300 charity dips to raise more than £22,000 for a food bank. Members of the Grey Dippers fundraising group have been…

And finally over to the Czech Republic, where the capital Prague hosted its annual Boxing Day swim. Hundreds of winter swimmers braved the chilly waters of the city’s Vltava River on Monday. Participants swam races of 100, 300, and 750 meters in the river, where the water temperature was around 5 degrees Celsius. The Boxing…

Despite icy temperatures, dozens of Angelenos gathered in Santa Monica on Sunday to partake in the annual Polar Bear Swim. As a reward, swimmers were given a cup of hot cocoa.

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