2-way English Channel 80km swimming to tackle climate changes
Fundraising campaign by
Chun Kong Mak
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€281.00raised of €1,000.00 goal goal
No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities
Campaign Story
Rostislav Vitek, this July, is going to attempt a 2-way English Channel crossing swimming from England to France and back to England again without wetsuit, a distance of around 80km, attempting to break the world record of 16h 10min set by Philip Rush in 1987. Water temperature is estimated to be 12-16 degrees Celsius. In 2009, Vitek set the national record in Czech Republic to swim solo one way across the English Channel at 7 Hours, 16 minutes and 25 seconds, which was also the fourth fastest solo swim of all time. As an ice swimmer, he set a world record for an Ice Mile in 4.83 °C water in 20:29 and won the bronze medal in 1000m at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany when the water temperature was 2.6 °C.
He agrees that global warming is an SOS issue all of us in the world are facing right now. He believes that the decrease of glaciers and the increase of sea level are associated with global warming. As an open water and marathon swimmer, he wants to do something for the next generation. He hopes to use this swimming challenge to draw the public's attention to the issues related to our ocean. At least half of the raised fund will go to Friends Of The Earth (https://friendsoftheearth.uk) which has projects to tackle climate changes with various approaches such as promoting renewable energy sources. The rest will be used to cover part of the expenses of the challenge.
Picture above is Vitek with his two sons.
Article about this campaign:
http://dailynews.openwaterswimming.com/2018/05/the...
https://swimswam.com/czech-olympian-rostislav-vite...
Rostislav's swimming profile: http://www.rostavitek.cz/open-water-swimming-dalko...
More updates in the future can be found on http://www.myswimchallenge.com
And our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/186856585450010/
Fundraising Team
- Chun Kong Mak
- Campaign Owner
- Brno, CZ
PhD graduate in Analytical Chemistry; Amateur Ice/Marathon swimmer
PhD graduate in Analytical Chemistry; Amateur Ice/Marathon swimmer
- Rostislav Vitek
- Campaign Owner
Donors
- Tania Mak
- Donated on May 26, 2018
- Wing Lam
- Donated on May 21, 2018
Go luck on breaking the record!!
Confirmation of donation
Update posted by Chun Kong Mak at 03:41 pmDear All Backers,Thank you for your donation and generosity.As our description, we have donated 50% of it to the Friend of the Earth in UK to support global warming causes. :)Cheers!Chun Kong Mak
One-way English Channel has been swum and two-way attempted
Update posted by Chun Kong Mak at 09:53 amRostislav Vitek has reached the French shore after 9hr43min tough swim fighting with the tide. 43.2km has been swum. The wind speed was only 3 knots in the beginning of the swim. The wind speed kept increasing over the way, which was not up to the weather forecast by the. . . . .
The swim will begin Either this Thursday or Friday
Update posted by Chun Kong Mak at 02:53 pmThis morning, the first meeting with the legendary pilot Reg Brickel Jr. has been carried out. The temporary plan is to start swimming on Thursday early morning at 3:45am or Friday morning 4:30am. Video of the meeting can be found below:https://www.facebook.com/groups/myswimchallenge/permalink/239309606871374/#2wayenglishchannel #2waylamanche #myswimchallenge #2waychallenge
We are on the way to Dover, England!
Update posted by Chun Kong Mak at 06:08 amHi Backers,We have lowered the goal of the fundraising from €3000 to €1000 and wish to complete it. Our swimming support team have started our journey from 2am in Brno, Czech Republic to Dover, England. The road journey takes around 14-16hours. Then, we will wait for the good weather to
Published on swimswam.com
Update posted by Chun Kong Mak at 07:57 pmDear Backers,It is cheerful that our campaign got published to swimswam.com, one of the biggest swimming magazine based in USA.The following link is the article:https://swimswam.com/czech-olympian-rostislav-vite...There are three weeks left to go and we will start our journey to England for the channel. After some time, the funding has reached 9%.
5% Funded Thank You
Update posted by Chun Kong Mak at 08:25 amThank you for all the sharing and donation. The donation got over €100 and is now shown on the public list on gogetfunding.com. 5% of the target is funded! We would appreciate if you could keep sharing the links to your friends.
Donors & Comments
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 26, 2018
be water
- Tania Mak
- Donated on May 26, 2018
- Wing Lam
- Donated on May 21, 2018
Go luck on breaking the record!!
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 20, 2018
- Kamil Cepelak
- Donated on May 20, 2018
Good Luck with this extreme swim challenge and hope you can make it. We are proud to be part of it and help a little.
- Yun Yan Lai
- Donated on May 19, 2018
Support!
- Joey Hauser
- Donated on May 19, 2018
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 19, 2018
- Rostislav Vitek
- Donated on May 16, 2018
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 15, 2018
;) Gona be a legend coach man!
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