Category: General news

We’re excited to announce a partnership with dryrobe®, a brand known for its high-performance outdoor change robes designed to keep swimmers warm in extreme conditions. This collaboration marks an important step in supporting enthusiasts of winter swimming.

Our partnership will sponsor all 2025 and 2026 events, including the 2025 IWSA World Cup and the Winter Swimming World Championship 2026 (WSWC). 

Fun fact.

WSWC 2024 set a new record of participants (1405). We’ll do our best to set a new one in Oulu.

With our 20th anniversary in 2026, and WSWC returning to Oulu, Finland, we’re glad to have partnered with dryrobe® in continuation of our previous collaboration during the 2024 Winter Swimming World Championship, that was hosted in Tallinn, Estonia.

“We’re very excited to extend our relationship with IWSA, who like us are passionate about promoting winter swimming and having a positive impact on its global community. Our sponsorship of last year’s IWSA Winter Swimming World Championships was a huge success, and we’re looking forward to working with the IWSA over the following two years on an expanded brief that will now account for all 2025 and 2026 IWSA organised events, including the 2026 Winter Swimming World Championships.”

Gideon Bright, founder and CEO of dryrobe®

“IWSA is very happy about the partnership with dryrobe®. In August when our last event took place at the Perito Moreno Glacier in El Calafate, Argentina, every swimmer was wearing a Dryrobe® Advance and it really helped them to manage and enjoy the extreme conditions. Our partnership, which includes the 2026 Winter Swimming World Championships in Oulu, is also very valuable as we will celebrate our 20th anniversary in the same city we were founded. It is very special that we will return to our original roots together with dryrobe®.”

Mariia Yrjö-Koskinen, president of IWSA

Make sure to follow dryrobe® on social media (@dryrobe) and visit their website.

If you’ re here and you’ re reading this, it means you know that we have a new domain name. Our new official address on the internet is iwsa.me.

Why did we change it?

In with new, out with the old. As we continue our journey in rebuilding our brand, the next step after adapting the new visual style was set on our domain. We decided to drop the .world domain and leave it to the past.

What is the idea behind the domain .me?

Quite easy – it’ s you. If we would ask you:

– What is winter swimming?

– Well that’s easy, me, I’m winter swimming.

You, the swimmer, you’re the one who makes each event special and memorable. Our name change is a step in our devotion to bring better and better events to all enthusiasts of winter swimming worldwide.

Did your social media addresses change as well?

No. All of our social media addresses are the same – @iwsaofficial.

Due to reasons we currently aren’t able to disclose, we no longer have access to our original Facebook page.

We have created a new Facebook page where you can contact us if needed, as we no longer have access to messaging and comments, as well as directly posting content.

Please be aware that our only official email is info@iwsa.me and we don’t have an associated phone number.

To those who follow our social media must have already seen the latest news on our website’s development path. Due to many requests and enquiries, we decided to push forward the development of record tables.

Where can I find records?

You can easily find the record page in the upper menu of the website or by visiting the record page directly.

Is there anything new?

We’ve completely redeveloped the backbone of our records, with the following done:

• A nest page for all records to be held in a single place.
• All records were reviewed and updated.
• New stylization of the record table.
• Updated categories (A1 to J4 and EA to EJ3).