Hi everyone,

Thanks for supporting the Melbourne Cup Day swim at Williamstown Beach yesterday, we have had some great reviews and lovely thank you messages. Everyone had a great day out on the water and nobody needed to be rescued – a testament to the design of the event, the preparations and the dedication of the safety team.

Since 2017, this has grown to be Melbourne’s launch of the summer open water season. Our team has built this event to be the safest, most professional swimming event on the OWS calendar.

The mother of this invention is the lack of accessible swimming events in the Bay, not ‘adventure’ swims (which have a higher level of risk and management issues) but swim events that are close to shore, contained in a manageable area and, frankly, relatively non-scary.

The difficulties involved in managing safer open water events is the major reason why Australia underperforms internationally in this sport which we should dominate.

Thanks to the Westgate Neighbourhood Fund, Ferguson St Osteo, EarLab.com.au and LifesavingFirstAid.com.au for helping us to make this an awesome event for Melbourne.

800m 1st Taylor Sansom 19.00m
2nd Jennifer Woodley 19.27m
3rd Kate Munkton 19.48m

1600m
1st Tommy Golding 22.55m
2nd Sierra Kaufmann 24.27m
3rd Matthew Koce 25.39m

2400m
1st Lee Howe 31.37m
2nd Taylor Snowden-Richardson 31.28m
3rd Piper Hall 36.53m

3200m – Under 20 (M)
1st Morrison White-Gould 46.25m
2nd Jake Panesi 51.00m
3rd Kevin Tran 77.45m

3200m – Under 20 (F)
1st Taylah Watson 44.15m
2nd Elly Watson 46.15m
3rd Ella Irvine 46.20m

3200m – 21-39 Yrs (M)
1st Lewy Tighe 39.40m
2nd Gareth Corbett 49.02m
3rd Corey Phillips 51.08m

3200m – 21-39 Yrs (F)
1st Emilie Cardamone 49.00m
2nd Georgia Brack 51.55m
3rd Sadie Turner 53.32m

3200m – 40 & Over (M)
1st Kipp Kaufmann 39.09m
2nd Graham Coutts 49.17m
3rd Atle Valland 49.48m

3200m – 40 & Over (F)
1st Natalie Pearson 52.00m
2nd Shelley Turner 54.20m
3rd Sally Winton 57.20m