You were 366 swimmers from 28 countries taking on our Epic Adventure Swim Races in Croatia, Greece and Montenegro this year!

*Image ©Vincent Curutchet / UltraSwim 33.3*

5 MONTHS to go to #7CROATIA - our Founder’s favourite racecourse, especially the planned day2, which takes swimmers in and out of 7 beautiful unspoilt bays, one after the other.

THE PERFECT NEW YEAR RESOLUTION! RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW

52% FEMALE: In 2024 the scales tipped in favour of our female participants - 52% overall, and our hundreds of 2025 entrants are maintaining this! No need to any special formats or pushing, UltraSwim 33.3 is officially female led!

61 YEARS SEPARATE THE YOUNGEST AND OLDEST: We had swimmers from age 14 to 75 in 2024, with something similar already lined up for 2025 - with our dear Corrado from Italy back for his third 33.3, and this at time at age 72. The median age was 50 years old.

NEW YORK TO LONDON AND BACK and some - our EPIC swimmers covered over 12,200 km and something like a quarter of million if you include all the training miles, more than half way to the moon!

16% OF YOU NEVER TRAIN IN A POOL - whereas 84% train ‘mostly’ in a pool, and 64% of you intended to start our events in a wetsuit.

18-27C WATER TEMPERATURES of course varied throughout the year and the venues. Probably the most 'efficient' temperature for open water swimming was in Croatia with 19-20C on race days - coupled with the gorgeous turquoise waters!

26 NATIONALITIES living in 28 countries have attended our events to date - from New Zealand to Brazil, Sweden to Morocco, Singapore to Canada, with USA and UK lining up as the biggest contingents, closely followed by Brazil, Germany and France.

44% OF YOU came through a friend's recommendation, and your reviews on RaceCheck gave us between 4.8 and 4.9 star rating - thank you! A majority of you travelled alone to the event, but most of you went home with a new set of global friends!

AVERAGE PACE 2.9KM/H - thanks to our #3 swimmer Svetlana, we had these great graphics are our events to show the super spread of speed - from our cut-off pace of 2km/h up to our fastest overall pace for an event which was Michael Dieckmann who averaged over 4km/h on some of the swims.

2036 POST SWIM REFUEL LUNCHES were served in some really cool places, and 23% percent of them took in to account special dietary needs - an important detail that is not always easy to deliver in remote restaurants with different cultural priorities!

78 KAYAKERS SUPPORTED you during your swims this year, paddling over 3,200 km between them to keep you safe

3,750 Precision Fuel&Hydration gels and the popular chews consumed by our swimmers at refuel stations on the longer swims and on the startline - thanks to Andy Blow and the team at Precision who kept you fuelled and turning those arms for longer than many of you thought possible! Working with these guys on how to reduce the packaging element though for 2025 for our feedstation supply (there is a refuel stop in any swim longer than 5km).

173 VCU (Verified Carbon Units) compensation project to offset the part of the footprint of the event we could not eliminate, and in addition we supported Sea Trees projects in Kenya with mangrove plantations. This is no excuse for our footprint, but overall in social and environmental terms we do believe we are net positive contributing impact wise and will be working even harder in 2025 on our anti-single use plastic push, removing toxic anything we can in the water (eg sun tan lotion rules incoming) as part of our Sport for Nature commitments, and removing plastic from our supply chains (influencing our suppliers to never use it again), and repeating super developments like in our Greek hotel where they replaced using plastic bottled water (everywhere in Greece) with on site cooling filters - a better end result for everyone, especially as they are 100% solar powered too…the hotel is off grid

IMPACT: OUR PROMISE