Swim 3 articles

How to line up, wait upright, survive the chaos and start drafting in the first 200 metres of an open water triathlon swim.

Drafting is legal in the swim. Learn the feet vs hip positions, how much energy each saves, and how to catch and hold a draft in a race.

Bartlomiej Kubkowski is the first person to swim the Baltic from Sweden to Poland: about 160 km in nearly 55 hours, at his fifth attempt.