The Australian long swims database
A Marathon Swimming Australia project
About
The Australian long swims database
This is a volunteer-run project in collaboration with Marathon Swimming Australia, which aims to bring visibility and recognition to the open-water swimming culture of Australia and showcase our nation’s great long-distance swim races and athletes.
Swims
12,725 marathon swims
Athletes
6,959 swimmers
Distance
Solo swims from 10 to 87.7km
About our content
Our commitment
The Australian Long Swims database aims to provide a repository of open water swims over 10km in distance carried out in Australia, and also includes iconic international swims which are popular with Australian swimmers.
The database is free, transparent and inclusive. We do not ratify swims but simply publish the results as ratified and shared by race organisers and authoritative bodies such as Marathon Swimming Australia (formerly the Australian Long Distance Swimming Federation).
If you are a marathon swim race organiser or ratifying body and would like to share your results with us, please get in touch.
“Like our city, our island nation and our fragile blue planet, our bodies depend on water. Swimming can be an initiation, a meditation, an act of liberation. The routines, physical ebbs and flows, and surprises of a swim parallel our individual journeys as life’s emotional tides rise and fall. A swim can wash away past setbacks, irrigate hope and cleanse us emotionally. Swimming is living, and swimming connects us with Country, ourselves and each other.”
Chris Baker, Swimming Sydney, A tale of 52 swims
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