The 2025 World Aquatics Open Water World Cup season ends in style - sunshine, calm seas, and two deserving champions crowned in Golfo Aranci, Italy.
The World Cup season ends where it began, in the Mediterranean. Golfo Aranci, Italy, hosts the 2025 World Aquatics Open Water World Cup finale, and with both overall titles still up for grabs, everything is on the line.
The World Cup gets cold, tidal, and tactical in Setúbal—where Olympic hopefuls made their final statements before the World Championships.
The 2025 World Aquatics Open Water World Cup heads to Setúbal—one of the most iconic and tactical stops on the circuit. With just weeks to go until the World Championships in Singapore, this race looms large in the season narrative.
The 2025 World Aquatics Open Water World Cup in Ibiza was a spectacle of strategy, speed, and surprises. With the debut of the 3km Knockout Sprint and unexpected podium finishes, the Mediterranean waters set the stage for a thrilling competition.
The opening leg of the 2024 World Aquatics Open Water World Cup in Soma Bay delivered everything we love about open water swimming—dominance, drama, and disqualifications. With 19°C water, relentless wind, and high salinity, conditions were brutal, and only the toughest survived.
An absolute pleasure to have Alice Dearing back on Black Line Fever as we break down everything you need to know ahead of the upcoming World Aquatics Open Water World Cup!
A true honour to have the one and only, Chelsea Gubecka on Black Line Fever just weeks after claiming Silver at the 2023 World Champs and booking her ticket to Paris 2024!
What a week of racing! The 2023 World Aquatics World Champs truly was a great showing of all the good that comes with Open Water Swimming. With 6 swimmers punching their ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics, 5 Gold Medals awarded and plenty of winners and losers throughout there was plenty to debrief. Joined by former champion, Nic Rollo, we broke down all the races, storylines & of course, the much loved, thinking mans top 5!
The famous hometown heartthrob, Australian Dolphin & all round great bloke, Kyle Lee joins us on Black Line Fever ahead of his second World Champs!
Australian Dolphin, Rotto Swim Record Holder, OWS's best moustache & all round great bloke, Bailey Armstrong joins us on Black Line Fever as our very first guest!!!
The world's only Open Water Swimming podcast is back for episode 2 with a race recap from Setubal! We focus on all the talking points from Round 3 of the 2023 World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup, in Setubal, Portugal, including the winners and losers, the wetsuit discussion and of course, the highly anticipated Thinking Man's Top 5!
The first episode of Black Line Fever, the world's only Open Water Swimming podcast focussing on all the breaking news, updates and moves in the OWS World as well as talking to the coaches, decision makers and athletes making waves around the world.