Winter swimmer

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Henri Kaarma at the 2016 Winter World Swimming Championships, photography by Konstantin Soldatov in Tyumen, Russia
Winter swimmer in Siberia, Russia
Cold-water swimmer Ram Barkai in Antarctica
Nuala Moore doing an ice swim in Russia inside the Arctic Circle
Alexander Brylin, the famed Russian ice swimmer and 2013 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year nominee
Alexander Brylin and colleagues carrying the Olympic torch relay on its way to Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in 2ºC (35.6ºF) water in the Amur River
Ice Swimming German Open poster
Christof Wandratsch featured at the Ice Swimming German Open
Chinese winter swimmers in Shichahai Lake in Beijing. Photo by Martina Albertazzi

noun - A winter swimmer is an athlete who does any form of swimming that is extreme in terms of water temperature and includes ice swimming during the winter season. A winter swimmer performs exploits in bodies of water ranging from a frozen crust of ice to water under 5°C.

A cold-water swimmer may be synonymous with winter swimming or Avantouinti or ice swimming in colder countries. This requires either breaking the ice or entering where a spring keeps the water from freezing over. This may also be simulated by a pool of water at 0°C, the temperature at which water freezes. Ice swimmers typically dip their heads below the surface to ensure that they are completely wet, whether or not the water is over their heads. They usually do not swim beneath the ice, as it is easy to get disoriented when turning around and not be able to find one's way back to the hole. Some ice swimmers avoid this problem by swimming from one hole to another, or by swimming under the ice while tethered to the shore.

Open Water Swimming in Antarctica

Synonyms

Extreme swimmer, Ice swimmer, polar bear swimmer, walrus, cold water swimmer

Videos of Cold-water Swimmers

2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships


2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships sanctioned by the International Ice Swimming Association, including the ice kilometer race in Burghausen, Germany.

2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships sanctioned by the International Ice Swimming Association, including the ice kilometer race in Burghausen, Germany.

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