Saturday 23rd
February 2013 – be part of the world’s biggest 1 day swim!
On
25th 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 23rd 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
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