Inspiring stories on other sites
Many of the links below come from channel-triathlon.com by Vasanti Niemz and Karteek Clarke's personal site http://www.karteekclarke.com ...
The importance of speedwork in Channel swimming
A talk by Sri Chinmoy in China, 2005, to his students who were preparing to cross the English Channel. ...
Swimming for Peace - Golden Jubilee EC Relay, Sept. 2014
I was extremely fortunate to have the incredible opportunity to be part of a 4-person NZ/Czech relay swim of the English Channel. Our swim was dedicated to Sri Chinmoy’s 50 years of service in the West, so our official name was the Sri Chinmoy Golden...
Angikar's English Channel Triathlon 2014
September 6-11, 2014, our Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team member Angikar Djordjevic from Ni š , Serbia, achieved a new English Channel Triathlon - swimming (EC solo no 2!), cycling and running all the way from Dover to Heidelberg in Germany....
Golden Jubilee Team crosses the English Channel, Sept. 17, 2014
Sept. 17, 2014: The 4 person "Sri Chinmoy Golden Jubilee Team" - a relay team consisting of swimmers from the Czech Republic and New Zealand - made it across the English Channel in 16 hours 34 min. This is 3rd international female...
Angikar Djordjevic completes EC triathlon from Dover to Heidelberg, Sept. 2014
Sept. 6-11, 2014: Angikar Djordjevic from Serbia finished his second English Channel solo on Sept. 6th, 2014, in 18 hours 41 min. as part of a personal EC ultra triathlon, continuing, with some rest in between, to bike 560 km and run 3...
Karteek Clark swims English Channel for the eleventh time, July 2014
July 30, 2014 - Karteek Clarke, member of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon and Swimming Team swam the slowest and toughest of his 11 Channel crossings on 30 July (19 hours and 1 minute). He is indeed a champion of champions. Looking at the map of his...
Adriano Passini completes English Channel Swim
On the 27th of July 2013, Adriano Passini completed the 44th successful English Channel crossing by a member of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon in a time of 11 hours 10 minutes. It was the first successful crossing by a Brazilian member of the Sri Chinmoy...
Sri Chinmoy inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
Long Beach, California, Sept. 2012 ...
Successful Gibraltar Straits Crossing
On Oct. 9th, Vasanti Niemz, 2x Channel swimmer and ultra-triathlete from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, Germany (and a vegetarian since 1981), accomplished the first crossing by our team of the 14 km wide Gibraltar Straits between Spain/E...
Men's relay team completes Channel Swim
An international team from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon swam the English Channel from Dover to Calias in 13 hours and 41 minutes at the 21st of September 2010. ...
Unique Triathlon - Dover to Aachen
Vasanti swimming across the Channel.
Vasanti Niemz, of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, completed a unique triathlon from Dover to Aachen, between 3.-6. Sept. 2010) Firstly, Vasanti swam the English Channel in a time of 16 hours 50 min...
Media coverage of Karteek's tenth channel swim
Article about Karteek's 10th crossing of the English Channel on Aug. 13, 2009, in the online newspaper news.scotsman.com, Aug 20, 2009: ...
Channel Swimmers
Read about members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team who have completed solo Channel crossings. ...
Useful Open Water Swimming Links
(updated 2017) Since our team's first English Channel swims in 1985, channel swimming and marathon swimming around the world has grown tremendously. Here some relevant and helpful links to other websites: ...
Vijaya receives Gertrude Ederle and Cape Storm Award
Vijaya Claxton, New York, USA, receives the Gertrude Ederle Award ...
Vijaya Claxton - the oldest American woman to swim the Channel
An account of C. Vijaya Claxton's successful English Channel crossing. ...
Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team Channel Swim List
Complete list of English Channel solo and relay swims by members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team (all non-wetsuit) since our first successful swims in 1985 ...
Inner Inspiration for Swimming and Self-Transcendence - by Sri Chinmoy
A small collection of questions and mantric aphorisms by Sri Chinmoy on the inner significance of swimming and self-transcendence ...