Christopher Guesdon Archives

Ross Youngman Lives Up To His Name, Sets Derwent River Big Swim Record

Ross Youngman Lives Up To His Name, Sets Derwent River Big Swim Record

Ross Youngman Lives Up To His Name, Sets Derwent River Big Swim Record Courtesy of Christopher Guesdon, Derwent River, Tasmania, Australia. The 34 km Derwent River Big Swim is one of The Toughest 13 swims [...]

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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class Of 2020/2021 Announced

Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class Of 2020/2021 Announced

Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class Of 2020/2021 Announced Courtesy of Christopher Guesdon, Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Today the Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame announced 24 additional Honorees. These athletes are [...]

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Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class Of 2020

Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class Of 2020

Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class Of 2020 Courtesy of Christopher Guesdon. Christopher Guesdon announced the inaugural Class of 2020 Honourees of the new Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (AMSHOF). He explains, "The [...]

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Dennis Miller Continues To Rise

Dennis Miller of Fiji who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2013, was recently appointed as a member of the Executive Committee of the FINA Bureau - one of the [...]

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Escort Pilots To Be Nominated And Honoured

After reading about the courageous and skilled mariners who have been inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as Honour Pilots, we also think of many more escort pilots who should be nominated [...]

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How Did Marathon Swimming Get Into The Olympics?

How Did Marathon Swimming Get Into The Olympics? Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How did open water swimming get into the Olympic Games? It all started with a simple lunch gazing out over the [...]

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10K Open Water Swim In Sibolga, North Sumatra

After the highly successful 5K and 10K open water swims at the 2011 SEA Games (Southeast Asian Games) were held on Putri Island on Indonesia, high-point winning Indonesia Swimming Federation is working with local volunteers [...]

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It’s Miller Time…Somewhere In The World

It's summer somewhere around the world. And if there is an elite marathon competition, it is usually the case that Dennis Miller of Fiji is there. Dennis is the Liaison of the FINA Technical Open [...]

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Indonesia, Vietnam And Malaysia Take To The SEA Games

PUTRI ISLAND, INDONESIA. With all the medals awarded in the 5K and 10K races at the 2011 SEA Games held on Putri Island (Pulau Putri, Kepulauan Seribu), Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia took home the open [...]

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Christopher Guesdon Thank You At The Hall Of Fame

Christopher Guesdon was the recipient of the 2010 Irving Davids / Captain Roger W. Wheeler Memorial Award at the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year. As the individual credited with creating [...]

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