Katja Pantzar hears her friend call out encouragingly as she stands on a wooden dock in central Helsinki on a cold, dark and snowy winter evening. It’s 14 F (-10 C), but all Pantzar is wearing is a ...

Jenna Laukkanen stole the show on day three of the Finnish Swimming Nationals. In the women’s 100-meter breaststroke Laukkanen touched with a time of 1:08.55 to break her own Finnish record of 1:08.59 ...

Several public as well as private swimming pools in Finland are taking measures to encourage immigrants, particularly women, to learn how to swim. The Finnish Swimming Teaching and Lifesaving ...

NEW COMMIT: Espoo, Finald’s Aino Otava will make the move to the University of Miami next fall after recently giving the Hurricanes a verbal commitment. Otava swims year-round for Cetus, the largest ...

Finland's grim tally of drowning deaths during the month of July has led to a wider public discussion about children's swimming skills and how they can be improved. A total of 28 people drowned in ...

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Will Euromaxx reporter Max Merrill emerge victorious at ice swimming in Finnland’s frigid water? To come in first, he’ll have to hold out in waters with temperatures of 1 only degree Celsius.

The documentary film Halli addresses body-related commentary and its impact on people's body image. Anonymous stories are set in a swimming hall, where we see a variety of body types. Finnish swimming ...