The latter, a sprawling expanse with cafés and a swimming channel that attracts as many as 10,000 people in summer, is considered the most beautiful river bath in Switzerland. Bern also has its ...

The swim, which would be the first open water swim in the river in nearly a century, is scheduled for September 22. From over a thousand applicants, only 500 swimmers were selected to compete.

In a densely residential part of the city of Bristol in the southwest of England, a section of the River Avon attracts swimmers year-round. Wild swimming is recognized for helping people boost mental ...

While four of the students managed to swim ashore and were rescued, Sikun and Dibyajayoti were unable to fight against the current and drowned ...

Putney local Stewart Macpherson said he had been swimming the river for 40 years at spots including Dawn Fraser Baths in Rozelle. He was the first to swim at Putney Beach on Wednesday. He was ...