Swimming challenge
10 km
10 km
The Olympic open-water race.
Swim 10 km in one go.
- The distance
- 10 km
- It stands on
- Cadets' eight, Thames at 14
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Thames at 14
- Weekly distance
- About 10 km of swimming a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long swim
- 3.2 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Thames at 14 counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
The 10 km is the Olympic open-water race. It has been swum at every Games since Beijing 2008. Source: World Aquatics and the IOC.
The ladder
- Ice mile/
- Swim to Antarctica/
- Between the monsters/
- Across the Cold War/
- Hellespont/
- Plum Pudding/
- Grettir's swim/
- Cadets' eight/
- Thames at 14/
- 10 km