History’s First Two-way North Channel Crossing: In Her Own Words by Sarah Thomas
Sarah Thomas talks about her historic two-way North Channel crossing in her own words.
Tag: North Channel
The One And Only: What Can’t Sarah Thomas Do?
Breast cancer survivor Sarah Thomas continues to accomplish the unthinkable. She completed the unimaginable across the English Channel: four consecutive 33.5 km crossings in 54 hours 10 minutes in 2019. Over the weekend, she achieved the unfathomable across the 35 km North Channel: two-way crossing between Scotland and Northern Ireland in 21 hour 48
They Are Missing Bits, But Have Huge Hearts: 5 Legs, 5 Swimmers, 1 Goal
Team Missing Bit - including David Burke, Andrew Smith, Mary Clewlow, Jonty Warneken, and Kate Sunley - became the first disabled team to cross the 35 km North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland.
Extreme Success By All Extreme Measures
They did it. Unbelievable. But Ger Kennedy got people to believe. He said, "Where do I start really? [The relay across the North Channel in January] was three years in the making, but [we had] only four months of preparation to plan and find the best and safe way to achieve this impossible, [yet] possible, extreme relay in January across the
007 Swimmers: Extreme Winter Relay North Channel Attempt in January
Ger Kennedy has a knack to make an incredibly difficult extreme challenge ... even more difficult and even more challenging. Kennedy explains his next adventure on the high seas, "The Extreme Winter Relay North Channel attempt
is scheduled between January 10th -16th 2022. The estimated water temperature
will be 7°C. The estimated
Narración de mi TravesÃa del Canal del Norte
https://youtu.be/7Njc8D0jGuM Antonio Argüelles crossed the 35 km North Channel in 2017 in 14 hours 37 minutes at the age of 58, courtesy of Pablo Argüelles Cattori Argüelles was voted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in 2014.Argüelles was awarded the Premio Nacional del Deporte 2009 (National Sports Award) by
Celebrating The Seal, Stève Stievenart
Stève Stievenart, a 44-year-old
open water swimmer
from Wimereux, France is nicknamed the
Seal as he reportedly eats up to a kilogram of fish per day. He has certainly lived up to his nickname with this ice swimming, marathon swimming, and channel swimming feats of late. After kick starting his distance swimming with
Dr. Caroline Block Honored by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
Ned Denison, chairperson of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame announced the induction of Dr. Caroline Block as an Honor Swimmer in the
International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2022. He explains, "Caroline has completed world record swims, the longest distance, fastest, first ever, earliest and coldest marathons in
Irish Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming Announced
Courtesy of Jacqueline McClelland, Irish Long Distance Swimming Association, Ireland. The Irish Triple Crown is an achievement that requires the completion of three solo marathon swims and is governed by the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association. The 21 km Fastnet Swim between Fastnet Rock and Baltimore PierThe 13 km Galway Bay Swim between
Anne Marie Ward Never Gave Up
Anne Marie Ward won the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year award in the year she successfully crossed the North Channel
