The swim of the month is the Cook Strait swim completed by Marty Filipowski . On 23rd of February, Marty successfully crossed between the South and North Island of New Zealand. He is the first Vladswim swimmer and 100th ever swimmer to complete this swim. Near perfect conditions allowed Marty to finish in 9 hours

Catalina night swim in California, USA. In September Peter and Martin travelled to California for the 35km swim from Island Catalina to LA. Coach Martin paddled and supported Peter all the way to the main land. Peter’s fantastic time of 10hour and 6min is a reflection of his great preparation. Congratulations Peter!  

Congratulations go to: Dean Summers, Rachael Elkaim, Michael Hanisch and Marty Filipowski The Triple Crown swimmers must complete three challenging swims: the English Channel, the Catalina swim and the Manhattan Island swim. Dean, Rachael and Michael completed two swims in one season. Their first swim was the Catalina Channel and then only a month later

Scott Miers The “Clean Half” swim is a 15km race in Hong Kong held in mid-October. This year, Scott worked hard over winter to prepare for the race. His hard preparation brought him a great result – he swam the 15km swim in very tough conditions in only 3 hours and 31 min and placed

By Timmy Garrett Hi all… I will do two posts to Vlad group on this Arch2Arc and that’s it!! The second one will be the event report. Firstly, can’t thank Vlad enough for his coaching and getting me prepared for the swim. Also the support from Martin Vavrek and Jai Di Tommaso. Also thank you to all the

Frank Lowy channels his inner Grant Hackett by Bryce Corbett Move over Grant Hackett – there’s a new senior citizen making waves in the swimming pool. Proving it’s never too late to discover your sporting mojo, 85-year-old shopping centre supremo and football enthusiast, Frank Lowy has been taking private swimming lessons to perfect his stroke.