Hosted by William Ellis · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 78 episodes
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Outdoor swimming is one of the fastest growing activities in the world, the benefits of which are well documented across many platforms and media.Each episode of this podcast I (Will Ellis) will be asking the same set of questions to my guests in order to hear their swim story, find out what the water means to them, and in doing so find the common ground between us all: the love of the water itself.@owswimpod (Insta / Threads)
William Ellis hosts An Open Water Swimmer's Podcast, a sports show with 78 episodes published.
Welcome to the second episode of a very special series of short podcasts about the building, making and experience of UltraSwim 33.3… In these episodes we will speak to previous guests and the people behind the swim even
Welcome to the first in a series of episodes about the building, making and experience of UltraSwim 33.3… In these episodes we will speak to previous guests and the people behind the swim event that pushes you to swim th
Thank you to all my guests for Season 5... what a magical season it was. If you are planning an Open Water swim: whether it is the English Channel or perhaps your first 5km lake swim, please get in touch as would love to
(Available to subscribers only, episode free to play 4th April) My final guest for the season is an astonishing endurance athlete and swimmer. He has rowed across the Indian Ocean; and then decided quite casually to swim
(Episode available to subscribers only. Free to play at end of Season 5.) I chatted to this extraordinary swimmer back in 2024, after she had swam the 70km of Lake Geneva: breaking the British Record at the time. We also
(Available to subscribers only, episode free to play 21st March) Today’s guest is a phenomenal swimmer, who relishes the cold: she has completed the British Triple Crown, the English Channel, Bristol Channel and the gnar
(Available to subscribers only, episode free to play 28th March) This guest is an incredible Para Swimmer… Ros Hardiman has spent most of her adult life in a wheelchair, having contracted Polio at age 6. She represented
(Available to subscribers only until the end of Season 5) This guest is a fellow podcaster, and marathon swimmer who has been undertaking some extremely long challenges… we chat about hallucinating on a 29 hour swim, opt
(Available to subscribers, episode free to play 14th March) This episode is with Francesco Cavliere, he is an Italian marathon swimmer, who swims totally self supported and his approach to swimming is often referred to a
(Subscribers only from 28th Feb, free to play 7th March) I have been wanting to get Brenton on the podcast for some time - I am a big fan of his YouTube channel “Effortless Swimming” and he pops up very regularly across
(Available to Subscribers only until end of Season 5). I chatted to Colin a while ago in 2022, a man who lives right on the water at Ullswater Lake and also teaches there at his endless pool… He is no stranger to long mi
(Subscribers Only. Free to play at end of Season 5). I chatted to Neil a few years ago after he had completed his World Record Lake Geneva swim, a swim he completed in 22 hours and 9 minutes. Staggeringly fast for a 70km
Available to subscribers only until 28th February. In 2024 Vassos Alexander set his sights on swimming the English Channel. Not one to shy away from a challenge - being an ultra distance runner, he gave himself a matter
(Available to subscribers only from 14th Feb. Episode free to play 21st Feb). This episode is sort of the second part to episode 6, the chat with Andy Cornish, as on the same day and exactly the same time, Dani Wallwork
Available to subscribers only until end of Season 5 (March 2026). This guest came on the podcast originally way back in 2023… he has swam the English Channel three times and has now taken to completing many more lake swi
(Episode free to play 14th Feb) This week’s guest is a Channel Swimmer, having also swam the 20 bridges of Manhattan, and Gibraltar - with The Cook Straight on his swim calendar any day now… Some big swims under his belt
Available to subscribers only until end of Season 5 (March 2026). I have the nicest World Record Holder back on the podcast, he’s an astonishing swimmer: swimming faster than most can only dream; but has also become a gl
(Available 31st January to subscribers. Episode free to play Saturday 7th February) I’ve been looking forward to this episode for some time… in July 2025, Andy Cornish swam the 33km of the English Channel. He had been bl
This lady needs no introduction, having been crowned the greatest competitive open water swimmer of all time. She won three Olympic medals, Gold at Tokyo 2016, Silver at Rio 2020 and then Gold in her final Olympics in th
Episode free to play at the end of Season 5 (March 2026) This bonus episode is with the "Swim Smooth" founder and all round swimmer and international coach Paul Newsome. He came onto the podcast 5 years ago and a lot has
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An Open Water Swimmer's Podcast is hosted by William Ellis. The show is categorised under sports (swimming) and has published 78 episodes.
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