Snow Swimming Around the World

  0 Gold Medal Mel Stewart | February 14th, 2013

Swimmers are, well, different. They spend more time in the water than on land, and swim further than they walk or run on a daily basis. The swimmer in the swim video above is the real-deal. He clearly has the swimmer body type, hair, swimsuit, etc. Love his dad begging him not to do it in the background! The only description from youtube is:

What happens when a swimmer doesn’t swim for a few days?

How true is that?

Snow Swimming or Swim Team Snow Runs are a tradition for a lot of teams. I did it — back in the day — with my old prepschool team, The Mercersburg Academy. If your team does it, send us the video and we’ll post!  Here are a few of my favorites.

Snow swimming Championship in Finland 2013 (perhaps the most famous snow swimming video yet):

Snow Butterfly Swimming (which pulled in a big audience on SwimSwam):

Masters Swimming Indy Aquatic Masters Snow Practice (29 degrees out, and only wet swim suits to keep these Masters swimmers warm):

Snow swimming in Lapinlahti, Finland:

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