Dive into Nature with Safe and Enjoyable Ocean and River Swims
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Ocean Swim Season
Race Day Schedule 9.45 am to 10.30am: Check in 10.55 am: 500m race briefing 11.00 am: 500m race start 11.25 am: 2km race briefing 11.30am: 2km race starts (male then female) Pre race registration, numbering and cap distribution at the Port Sorell Surf Lifesaving club. Swim course will be announced at the briefing.
The Team Challenge moves back to Seven Mile Beach and will be rumn in conjunction with the Australian Police and Emergency Services Games a national event coming to Tasmania. The swim is an off the beach event with the course announced at the swim briefing. The Team Challenge offers swimmers to join with mates in 4 person mixed gender teams. The winning team will be determined by the lowest accumulated team points calculated from the combined waves and times of the 1500 m swim. Enter as an individual but don't forget to enter your four person team name. No race day individual entries but teams can be finalised on the day. Being the 2nd last race of the Tasmanian Ocean Swim Series valuable individual points are on the line.. A 500 m novice/nipper swim will also be offered.
In 2025, a new event is being launched! In addition to the iconic Beach2Beach swim, the Kingston 5k will run! Swimmers will have the option to complete the Beach2Beach course crossing the finish timing mat, then return to the water to swim a 2.4 k rectangle course to the northern end of the beach. This will allow swimmers to compete in TWO races in ONE so still collecting points in the Tasmanian Ocean Swim Series. We are so excited to be able to offer a longer swim for our keen ocean swimmers as we know this is something people have been wanting for a while now! We look forward to welcoming everyone to the line on the 23rd March
This 2 km series point swim is a river to beach swim. Starting in the Mersey River at the boat ramp opposite the Elimatta Hotel, swimmers will take a course towards Bass Straight turning left and finishing at the Devonport Surf Lifesaving Club. Pre race registration, numbering and cap collection to occur at the Devonport SLSC from 7.30 am. Swimmers are then to make their own way to the start point and pre race briefing. The 500 m swim will be conducted from the Devonport SLSC.
The Bridport Swim the Pier event is held in the beautiful North East town. Intas Group is the generous sponsor of this swim. The historic pier extends out into Bass Straight and makes this swim something special. Three swim distances on offer. 500 m novice, 1000 m and the 2000 m series points swim. Registration from 8.30 am at the Pier Swim start times. 9.30 - 500 m 9.35 - 1000 m 9.40 - 2000 m series point swim Great random draw prizes and BBQ after the swim.
Race 2 of the Tasmanian Ocean Swim series. This race has a bit of spice! Just a 1200m dash, location changed to 7 Mile Beach! This particular event attracts entrants nationally & internationally, due to the timing of this New Year event.
Registrations close 24 hours prior, so don’t wait until the day or you may be disappointed.
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The Tasmanian ocean swim series provides a perfect mix between a competitive environment, and a fun, inclusive community.
Tasmania’s stunning beaches creates picturesque race courses for the Tas ocean series to hold events on. Seeing parts of the state that I never knew existed makes for a very enjoyable experience
Sam Askey-DoranMale Open Champ! The combination of beautiful locations, well-run events, community spirit, and personal achievement makes the Tasmanian Open Water Swim Series a standout event for swimming enthusiasts
Doug HughsonPresident Australian Long Distance Swimming Federation A welcome and inclusive community of like-minded open water swimming enthusiasts. Some come to swim, catch up with mates and share a laugh! Others enjoy the competition and personal challenges. Whatever the motivation, the outcomes are valuable and personal milestones often achieved.
Tasmanian swimming destinations are always stunning, often trying, but worth having a dip!
Wendy SheltonDodgy Dipper Mercury News / Elise Kaine
Conditions were a far cry from his record-breaking swim in the tropical waters of Hawaii, but it still did not slow Sam Askey-Doran down.
Askey-Doran was the overall winner of the Brooke Street Pier 1200 ocean swim at Seven Mile Beach on Saturday, finishing in 13 minutes and 29 seconds.
He said it felt good to “belt out” the 1200m race after training for the Iron Man World Championships in Hawaii, where he recently broke the swim record.
“It was very different to racing in Kona,” he said. “With no wetsuits, tropical water and all these tropical fish about.”
Askey-Doran has taken out the top spot in the Brooke Street Pier 1200 every year since 2019 and hasn’t been beaten in a Tas Ocean Series swim since March 2019.
He said it was great to be back in the water, after taking some time off after Kona.
He now plans to get out to as many of the southern races as he can before he heads to New Zealand in March for Iron Man New Zealand.
Race organiser Rob Peart said Askey-Doran was the “local hero” but swimmers from interstate and even internationally also joined the race, including one from Laguna Beach California.
He said there were 86 competitors at Saturday’s race. Mr Peart said the female overall winner, Lucy Smith, was “one to watch” finishing the 1200m race in 15 minutes and 48 seconds.
“She trains very hard, she’s going to go a long way,” he said of the 13-year-old from Penguin.
Lucy has been training at Penguin Surf Life Saving Club since under 8s and has been swimming in the pool for five years.
“I prefer the surf,” she said. “It’s more fun and I get bored in the pool.”
The Ulverstone Secondary College student says she trains in the pool six times a week and tries to get four in the surf.
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- 100 Mornington Road, Mornington TAS, Australia
- Surf Life Saving Tasmania
- +61-0431792317 - Swim Admin
- +61-03 6216 7800 - SLST
- admin@tasmanianoceanswimseries.com
- Mon-Fri - 09:00-17:00
Surf Life Saving in Tasmania is a volunteer based not-for-profit community service association and is the leading agency for water safety in Tasmania. We empower every Tasmanian to help keep our beaches and waterways safe.
