{"id":1837,"date":"2012-11-08T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2012-11-10T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:45:01","slug":"successful-gibraltar-straits-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Successful Gibraltar Straits Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vasanti Niemz, a two time English Channel swimmer and ultra-triathlete from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team Germany, has recently swum across the Gibraltar Straits, the body of water separating Spain from Morocco<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1838\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/self-transcendence\/successful-gibraltar-straits-crossing\/attachment\/vasanti-niemtz\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1838\" title=\"Vasanti Niemz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vasanti-Niemtz-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vasanti-Niemtz-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vasanti-Niemtz-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vasanti-Niemtz.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vasanti (right) and her assistant Albena hold the Peace Torch after a succesful crossing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vasanti Niemz, a two time English Channel swimmer and ultra-triathlete from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team Germany, has recently swum across the Gibraltar Straits, the body of water separating Spain from Morocco. Vasanti completed the 14K (8.7 mile) swim under favourable conditions in 5 hours and 25 minutes. She was assisted by Albena Margaritowa from Edinburgh. Vasanti&#8217;s Gibraltar crossing was a dream come true. She dedicated the swim to the 25th anniversary of the World Harmony Run, a global Torch relay for peace founded by Sri Chinmoy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1839\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/self-transcendence\/successful-gibraltar-straits-crossing\/attachment\/vasanti_gibraltarmap\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1839\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1839\" title=\"Certificate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vasanti_GibraltarMap-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vasanti_GibraltarMap-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vasanti_GibraltarMap-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vasanti_GibraltarMap.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The swim bridged the continents of Europe and Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasanti Niemz, a two time English Channel swimmer and ultra-triathlete from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team Germany, has recently swum across the Gibraltar Straits, the body of water separating Spain from Morocco Vasanti Niemz, a two time English Channel swimmer and ultra-triathlete from the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team Germany, has recently swum across the Gibraltar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1837\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Successful Gibraltar Straits Crossing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}