{"id":1155,"date":"2011-09-18T12:15:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T16:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2011-10-12T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:34:35","slug":"an-experience-of-swimming-english-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"An Experience of Swimming English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On 11 July 2011,, Abhejali\u00c2\u00a0Bernardov\u00c3\u00a1b from the Czech Republic became the 27th\u00c2\u00a0 member of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team\u00c2\u00a0 to successfully swim the English channel. ( making a total of 42 successful crossing). She completed the swim in a time of 14 hours and 37 minutes.<\/p>\n

This video gives an insight into the experience of swimming the English channel, one of the toughest endurance tests in swimming. It is said fewer people have swum the channel than have climbed Mount Everest.<\/p>\n

Intrinsic to a successful channel swim is a good support crew who need to help feed and guide the swimmer through the potentially dangerous lanes of the English channel. Abhejali was assisted by support crew Jayalata Dadkovicova, Ritadyumna Tobolkova, Lenka Svecova, Jana Bernardova (Abhejali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister) from Czech Republic and Dhavala Stott from Scotland, on the Seafarer II boat piloted by Chris Osmond.<\/p>\n

[jwplayer file=”http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/media\/abhejalis-channel-swim-2632\/abhejali-channel-swim.m4v” image=”http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/media\/abhejalis-channel-swim-2632\/abhejali.jpg” width=”480″ height=”270″] Source: Sri Chinmoy TV<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n