Category: Club life
Flooding at Our Clubhouse
PHOTO REPORT INSIDE June brought no long-awaited warmth. Instead, the persistent cold and rain brought flooding to Prague. The unregulated Berounka, which joins the Vltava…
Richard Haan Gets Married
I. PKO Praha member Richard Haan — opera singer, 2010 Thalia Award winner and conqueror of the English Channel and Strait of Gibraltar — married…
Cold-Water Swimmers’ Baptism 2013
Air at 6.0°C, water at 6.2°C. Today, Prague-Braník hosted the traditional cold-water swimmers’ baptism. Our new members and several other visitors were baptised with Vltava…
Cold-Water Swimmers on TV Metropol
Two days before the traditional swimmers’ baptism in Braník this Sunday at 10:30, Tomáš and Táňa Prokop appeared on TV Metropol’s Pražský expres. They spoke…
Traditional Swimmers’ Baptism in the Vltava
Our traditional cold-water swimmers’ baptism takes place on Sunday 6 January 2013. Open to swimmers and the public, it welcomes new members while longstanding members…
Remembering Václav Pilík
Our longstanding member Václav Pilík died in a tragic cycling accident on 16 August 2012. We will miss his warmth and his recollections of the…
Campfire, 24 June 2012
Our traditional pre-summer campfire followed immediately after the club trial. This little gallery captures the atmosphere of our get-together. Photos: Ivan Landa
I. PKO Praha Club Trial — 24 June 2012
Water: 12.4°C Air: 26.0°C Clear and sunny 1,000-metre course, swum downstream Hubal Petr 10.20.73 Tlamicha Zdeněk 11.09.11 Srbová Radmila 11.59.07 Bright Jack 12.13.67 Haan Richard 12.32.09…
Cold-Water Swimmers’ Baptism 2012
I. PKO Praha’s traditional swimmers’ baptism took place on Sunday 8 January 2012. The weather was less traditional: air at 4°C, water at 5°C, cloudy…
Happy New Year 2012 and an Invitation to the Swimmers’ Baptism
I. PKO Praha’s cold-water swimmers wish all our supporters a happy 2012 and invite you to Braník on Sunday 8 January at 10:30 for the…