Swimarathon - 23 February 2013

Saturday 23^rd February 2013 – be part of the world’s biggest 1 day swim!

On 25^th February 2012, at events organized by more than 100 Rotary, Rotaract, Interact and Sports clubs in 23 countries and 15 time zones, 4546 participants took part in the first Rotary Global Swimarathon. They all swam between 1200 and 1300 GMT and broke the Guinness World Record for the  most swimmers completing 100 metres in the same hour.

Most importantly, more than US$100,000 was raised for the Rotary International End Polio Now Campaign, enabling the immunization of hundreds of thousands of children against this crippling disease.

We simply cannot stop until Polio is finally eradicated from this earth and so on Rotary Day, Saturday 23^rd February 2013, we will once again invite the entire world to take part in what we firmly believe will be the world’s biggest ever 1 day swim. 

As local organizers can choose the time of day and duration of their events during that 24 hours, for 2013 we are targeting over 50,000 swimmers, more than 1000 clubs, raising more than $1million!

As an added incentive, very special prizes will be awarded at the Rotary International Conference in Lisbon in June 2013 for the most money raised for End Polio Now, the most swimmers at any one event and for the District which has the most clubs participating.

Please visit our website http://rotaryglobalswimarathon.org,   
find us on our Facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/rotaryglobalswimarathon 
or follow us on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/rotaryglobeswim 
for further details. 
Alternatively you can e-mail rotaryglobalswimarathon@gmail.com or contact event chair Rotarian Roger Graves from The Rotary Club of Grantham directly at chairrgs@gmail.com