Category: Alfred Nikodém Memorial
79th Alfred Nikodém Memorial 2025
For cold-water swimmers and supporters of this wonderful, healthy sport, Boxing Day is inseparable from the Alfred Nikodém Memorial. The oldest and largest cold-water swimming…
Invitation and participant information — 79th Alfred Nikodém Memorial
UPDATED 20 December 2025 ▶️ — Invitation to the Memorial: ČT24 television interview (in Czech) I. plavecký klub otužilců Praha warmly invites you to the…
Information for unaffiliated swimmers — Alfred Nikodém Memorial 2025
As tradition dictates, the Alfred Nikodém Memorial will take place on 26 December at 11 am at the northern tip of Slovanský Island. We are…
78th Alfred Nikodem Memorial 2024
UPDATED 7 January 2025 Added Jan Jirkovský's photo gallery and links to articles with photo galleries on Novinky.cz, Sportovnilisty.cz, Prazsky-magazin.cz, Prazska-drbna.cz, Blesk.cz and Prazskypatriot.cz. Christmas would…
78th Alfred Nikodem Memorial: invitation and information for participants
I. PKO Praha warmly invites you to the 78th Christmas swimming event in the Vltava — the Alfred Nikodem Memorial. This oldest and best-known cold-water…
Alfred Nikodem Memorial 2024: information for unaffiliated swimmers
The Alfred Nikodem Memorial will take place, as usual, on 26 December at 11:00 at the northern tip of Slovanský Island. We are delighted that…
77th Alfred Nikodem Memorial 2023
Ninety-nine years of an unbroken tradition: every Christmas, year after year, cold-water swimmers have taken to the icy Vltava in Prague. At first they were…
100 years in the icy Vltava: information for the 77th Alfred Nikodem Memorial (race cancelled)
UPDATED 25 December 2023 — EVENT CANCELLED Nature is against us. This morning we learned that further rainfall, strong warm winds and thawing mean that…
Alfred Nikodem Memorial 2023: information for unaffiliated swimmers
The Alfred Nikodem Memorial will take place, as usual, on 26 December at 11:00 at the northern tip of Slovanský Island. We are delighted that…
The 76th Alfred Nikodem Memorial, 2022
As much a part of Christmas in Prague as ever, the Alfred Nikodem Memorial returned on Boxing Day, organised by I. plavecký klub otužilců Praha.…