Interview of Triple Crowner Chris Burke from Dover after his 10 hour 44 minute crossing of the English Channel, courtesy of Ron Collins.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ron Collins announced that Chris Burke completed his open water swimming Grand Slam with his fast crossing of the English Channel in 10 hours 44 minutes yesterday. With his Catalina Channel crossing and his Manhattan Island Marathon Swim last year and his previous Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, Burke completed
Far away from the tides of the English Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar, removed from the ocean swells of the Molokai Channel and Catalina Channel, distant from the cold water of the Cook Strait and North Channel, different from Windermere and Zurich, the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim remains a challenge for intrepid marathon swimmers. And this now includes
Ron Collins not only talks the talk, he walks the walk. Collins is a waterman through and through. He is always around the ocean, relentlessly energetic as an athlete, race director, open water swimming pod coordinator, promoter and enthusiasm extraordinaire. He founded the 24 Mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim 16 years ago and will host the 16th annual race
Television replays and archived videos of sporting events are the norm around the world. But online race replays of open water swims are just beginning ... and animated replays are really cool to analyze and view in fast motion. The Tampa Bay Marathon Swim is at the forefront of providing the real-time positions of its competitors online. Its distance
