Open Water
2025 Open Water Championships
The 2025 Open Water Championships will be held on Sunday 22nd June 2025 at Lake 86, Cotswold Water Park.
This will be a collaboration between South West Region, West Midlands Region, East Midlands Region and Swim Wales.
Click here to visit the event Hub which details all of the information on the event and how to enter.
Open water swimming takes place in outdoor bodies of water such as oceans and lakes. The beginning of the modern age of open water swimming is sometimes taken to be 3rd May 3 1810, when Lord Byron swam several miles to cross the Hellespont (now known as the Dardanelles) from Europe to Asia.
There are a number of Open Water events in the South West culminating in the Open Water Regional Championships. Swim England South West has held these Championships for over 20 years. The National distances are are 2km (12/13yrs), 3km (14/15yrs), 5km (16/0ver). For more information on these events please check out our Events Calendar.
For information on development opportunities for Open Water Officials please contact the office on 01823 666 792.
Swim England have an array of information available on their Open Water Hub which is available by clicking here.
FAQs
For those of you who are interested in Open Water Swimming Swim England have put together a list of Masters Open Water FAQs.
Please click here to have a read through and for more information.
Minutes
To view the Meeting Minutes for the Open Water Technical committee please click here.
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