Category: Winter swimming competitions
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…
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…
14th Winter Swimming World Championships 2024, Tallinn
A report on I. PKO Praha's participation Anyone who needed a proper cool-down after a mild Czech winter could head to the World Championships in…
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…
13th Winter Swimming World Championships 2023, Bled: our club’s report
In a natural paradise beneath Slovenia's snow-covered Julian Alps, the enchantingly beautiful Lake Bled hosted the 13th Winter Swimming World Championships. Organiser IWSA promised swimming…
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.…