Scandinavian Winter Swimming Championship How to use the video This video is about the Scandinavian Winter Swimming Championship in Skellefteå. The video is in 9:16 format and suitable for social media.
The video is available with English subtitles, without subtitles (with the Sweden logo and some text) and as a clean version without any text. You can use video without subtitles or the clean version for translation to your local language.
Please make sure to credit the photographers Sture Marklund & Lars Westerlund in your captions.
Videos Download video with English subtitles (MP4 73 MB) Video with subtitles in English Download video without subtitles (MP4 73 MB) Download video with text and without subtitles Download clean version (MP4 73 MB) Video without text Download subtitles (SRT 389 Bytes) Subtitles in English Download graphics text (TXT 571 Bytes) Graphics text for translation Captions −20°C in the air, −0.1°C in the water. Would you dare to participate? 🏊♂️ 🥶 🧊 🎼
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