MSF Documented Swims - 2020
evmo
SydneyAdmin
Announcing the first MSF Documented Swim of 2020, Emma Radford's course-record setting swim in the River Derwent, Tasmania on New Year's Day.
https://marathonswimmers.org/swims/2020/radford-derwent/
Emma is only the 5th to complete this challenging swim since it was pioneered in 1973. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman-emeritus Chris Guesdon oversaw the swim, with Jai di Tommaso observing.
Emma's swim was ratified by unanimous consensus of the MSF Core Group along with Monterey Bay Swimming Association president Scott Tapley, who served as an independent external reviewer and temporarily replaced Emma on the committee.
Congratulations, Emma and team!
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The process for MSF Documented Swims will be a bit different this year, and going forward.
Documentation for each swim will be compiled and published on the MSF site with pending ratification status.
Documentation will be reviewed by committee of MSF Documented Swims "alumni" (swimmers or observers) in collaboration with the MSF core team. Once a swim has been reviewed, its status will change to ratified.
The following logos distinguish between these two statuses:
With that said, I'm delighted to announce the publication of 11 swims pending ratification:
New MSF Documented Swims (pending ratification):
Well done, all!
We have our first documented swim (pending ratification) from Hong Kong - a creative 10.2km loop around two rocks in Port Shelter by Isaac Yuen:
https://marathonswimmers.org/swims/2020/yuen-port-shelter/
I particularly want to praise first-time observer Michael Tsang @miklcct for doing a fantastic job compiling the documentation.
Thanks @evmo . The MSF community has given us invaluable resource to make this happen in a part of the world far from the marathon swimming capital. I hope this can serve as a role model for pioneering swims where marathon swimming isn't well developed.
Hey @miklcct that's a pretty great project. This is how to do it. I think the documentation is ended perfectly with the quote of "one small step for a man one giant leap..." Well done!
Great write-up! Congrats to Isaac and his crew, Po, Alfair and Michael @miklcct !!
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams
Wow! @miklcct, Isaac and crew—congratulations!! Also, that video footage is great... dramatic scenery and conditions! I’m super impressed with that storm and the kayak observing setup. Hoping this does indeed pave the way for more marathon swimming in the area. You’re right that with all those islands, a huge number of interesting and scenic routes are possible.
The latest MSF Documented Swim (pending ratification) is Alyssa Langlais's 6.7-mile swim from White Island, Isles of Shoals to Wallis Sands Beach in Rye, New Hampshire. This is a very neat-looking 10K-ish channel swim right in the backyard of New England's marathon swimmers.
Link to documentation: https://marathonswimmers.org/swims/2020/langlais-isles-of-shoals
Great job Alyssa, observer Cheryl Coletti-Lawson, crew/historian Bob Fernald, and the rest of the team!
Congrats Alyssa and crew! Great write-up Bob and Alyssa and great pics!
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams
Announcing eight new MSF Documented Swims (pending ratification):
Among these are the first MSF Documented Swims from Germany (Kaßner) and the Canadian province of Quebec (Knap). On the subject of Nicolas Knap's swim - he was granted an exemption from the usual minimum-10km rule for the interesting technical nature of the route (crossing the St. Lawrence River) and for geographic and linguistic diversity.
Well done, all!
Thank you very much Evan for the effort you put into collecting and analyzing these swims and the committee to review them.
I think this year we'll see an abundance of documented swims.
If they wouldn't also be driven by Covid conditions, the increasing number only would be a great news.
Smaller # of mass events, but it is in our nature to adapt and to find new opportunities, in what we love.
Knowing the effort involved in organizing a documented swim, I think these are proof that we are survivors and we'll be stronger and more responsible at the intermediary end.
There's a good number of new swimmers documenting and surely some of them, even in post Covid conditions will not forget that they can organize their own dream swim locations.
Keep safe, unfortunately winter is coming to most of us.
Announcing 12 new MSF Documented Swims (pending ratification):
Well done, all!
Announcing 13 new MSF Documented Swims (pending ratification).
Well done, all!