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World Bog Snorkeling Championships

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About World Bog Snorkeling Championships

Bog snorkelling is a sporting event that comprises of competitors completing, in the shortest time possible, two successive lengths of a water-filled trench slice through a peat swamp. The World Bog Snorkeling Championship, first held in 1985, happens yearly every August Bank Holiday at the thick Waen Rhydd peat swamp, close Llanwrtyd Wells in mid Wales. In 2014 Kirsty Johnson broke the past world record set by Dineka Maguire in 2013. Kirsty's chance was 1:22.56 secs. The world and men's champion for is Neil Rutter in a period of 1 min 26.15 secs The women's champion Jess Fidler 1 min 41.87 secs . Paddy Lambe, the Irish champion set a period at the Irish Bog Snorkeling Championships in September of 1:19 which set another world record for marsh swimming.

The Irish occasion in was additionally the first run through a sibling and sister won the national title around the same time. Moira Lambe, Paddy's sister, won the women's occasion around the same time. Other marsh swimming occasions happen, especially in Wales, yet in addition in Australia, Ireland, and Sweden. Related occasions incorporate the related mountain bicycle marsh swimming, where contenders must ride through the lowland on exceptionally arranged mountain bicycles, and the Bog Snorkeling Triathlon, which comprises of a 120-yard swim, a 19-mile bicycle ride and a 7.5 mile run. Continues from the title go to a neighborhood philanthropy every year. Philanthropies incorporate the Cystic Fibrosis Trust 2005 and the Motor Neurone Association 2006. The 2006 philanthropy was picked in memory of the Green Events treasurer, Ron Skilton, who died in December 2005.

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