As usual, our club’s first event of the new year was the traditional cold-water swimmers’ baptism, held this time on Sunday 4 January 2026. Open to the wider cold-water swimming community, it took place near our Braník clubhouse in an icy wind and the bracing 2.2°C waters of the Vltava.
Club chairman Tomáš Prokop baptised several dozen swimmers from a beautiful glass goblet, filled to the brim with Vltava water and topped up with ice cubes. First in line were Vojta and Lucka, who married on the very day this article was published. From today, they therefore share the wonderfully fitting surname ‘Láska’ — Czech for ‘love’. Congratulations to them and to everyone who took part in the baptism!
The videos and photo galleries below give a flavour of this year’s baptism. See you by the water!
Photo gallery
Photos: Jan Jirkovský
Photos: Judita Nováková
