Category Archive: Swimrun Life Magazine
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Fyrtillfyr Swimrun & other West Coast adventures
By Nancy Heslin Around Gothenburg and on the Swedish West Coast there are lots of things to do. At the bottom of this article you will find several links with fun activities while you are on the Swedish West Coast, all of them travel reasons of their own. Maybe it can be something you fit […]
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HAVE WE SEEN THE 2021 WOMEN SWIMRUN WORLD CHAMPIONS?
WOMENS CATEGORY AT ÖTILLÖ 2021 The superb Women World Champions Desirée Andersson and Fanny Kuhn will not be racing in this years World Championship. Fanny is recovering from a stress fracture in her hip and is building her running back up but it also means that 65 km of tough trail running in the Stockholm […]
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ÖTILLÖ SWIMRUN 1000 LAKES – CANCELLED IN 2021
ÖTILLÖ SWIMRUN 1000 LAKES Cancelled The 2021 race weekend is cancelled. Germany has general elections on that weekend and the City of Rheinsberg has just informed us that they cannot get enough volunteers to support the races. Without that support it will be impossible to put on the events. We will refund 95% of the […]
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FAST RACING AT ÖTILLÖ SWIMRUN UTÖ 2021
Lars Ekman And Fredrik Axegård team up For Utö It is now more than two years ago since the last ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Utö and a lot has happened since. As written in our latest article about the winning teams from 2019 Team Beaver Brothers, the overall winners has become something new. Jonas Ekman- Larsson is […]
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LEADERS OF THE UTÖ PACK
By Nancy Heslin News from the 2019 ÖTILLÖ Utö World Series winners It has been two years since the last Utö World Series race. We catch up with the winners to see what they’ve been up to and what we can expect from them on June 20. Anna Hellström & Desirée Andersson Desirée had not […]
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PERMANENT SWIMRUN TRAIL ON UTÖ
The Swimrun Trail Over the past couple of years our friends on Utö have built a fantastic trail for walking and running around Northern Utö and also one around Ålö to the South. The trail is called Utö Trail and it has yellow/blue markings. It is one of the most varied trailruns around. The […]
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ÖTILLÖ AND SUSTAINABILITY
Our quest to become more sustainable We feel that we as an event organizer have a responsibility to look at what we are doing and how we can become more sustainable. We know that travel to and from events is no good. However, we hope that by re-thinking our event strategy where future events […]
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Adriel Young and a Backyard Swimrun
Adriel Young and a Backyard Swimrun Two-time ÖTILLÖ Mixed World Champ Adriel Young swapped Lifeguard fame on the shores of Bondi Beach for a tiny stuga in a forest outside of Gothenburg and has become a big fixture in the Swedish swimrun community ever since. A Backyard Swimrun You cannot miss Adriel Young in a […]
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Online Premiere of the award- winning documentary ”All the way” – about the making of Swimrun World Champions
Online Premiere of the award- winning documentary ”All the way” – about the making of Swimrun World Champions On March 24th at 8 pm (Central European Time) we will host the Online premiere of the award- winning sports documentary ”All the way” – about the making of Swimrun World Champions. This online launch will be […]
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15 years of Swimrun – The founders story
“In 2006 we saw the opportunity to make an epic race. Who knew that it would become a world-wide sport?!” – Michael lemmel & Mats Skott about the original ÖTILLÖ and the beginning of swimrun. Our story In late 2005 Mats Skott and I met with Anders Malm and the Andersson brothers to hear more […]