Winter swimming in China

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• There are reportedly 141 iciness swimming firms across China with a membership of extra than 200,000. The more youthful swimmers are below ten years of age and the older ones of their 80s. In Beijing, there are the wintry weather swimming locations which includes Shichahai (什刹海), Yu Yuantan (玉渊潭) and Xihu swimming pool in Qinghua University, etc.

• In Harbin, northern China, many ice swim in the Songhua River. Also Jinan is an area of annual winter swimming festival. The massive event is swimming throughout Daming Lake about 300 metres (980 ft). In Taiyuan, where air temperature often goes beneath −10 °C (14 °F) in winter, loads of men and women ice swim every day inside the Fen River.

• In Dalian, a coastal town in northeast China, masses of people swim within the sea in iciness. Most human beings pick to go to the beach at midday. Some of them are concentrated in several beaches within the city, such as Fujiazhuang beach, Xinghai Square seaside and Shicao beach. At Bangchuidao Island beach, there also are some swimmers who choose to move swimming within the sea earlier than dawn.

• Jinan is likewise the site of annual Chinese national winter swimming festivals considering 2014, as an international invitational festival (in 2019 attended by using approx. 990 wintry weather swimmers from 12 nations, still according Chinese regulations) considering the fact that 2016, and, from season 2019/2020, because the International Winter Swimming Association (IWSA) 3rd degree of World Cup already according to IWSA global rules. Besides competitions in swimming pool created in lake the main occasion and longest subject of competitions is swimming 300 m (980 ft) from Huxin Island to the venue of the World Cup.