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 | On a cold, rainy weekend of August 18th and 19th, marathon swimmer, Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE created yet another world record this time on Lake Windermere, Cumbria. Windermere is England’s largest lake at 10.55 miles long. Not content with one or two way, Julie led her intrepid ladies team up and down the lake SIX times, a total distance of around 66 miles. This time the team swimming with Julie were Pip Spibey, Lucy Roper, Lucy Petrie, Eva Andreotti and Susan Gill. Click for more details |
 | It is a wonderful feeling to get any world record; this one was no different. On Tuesday 6th January 2009, after just 33 hours and 33 minutes in the water, the ladies team in which I was swimming, stepped ashore at Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake. The total distance was 120 kms, the longest ever recorded relay swim Click for more details |
 | It hardly seems like a year ago since the press bombarded me with congratulations on the announcement that I had been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for my ‘Services to Swimming and Charity’. Whilst I’ve been used to media attention over the years, having 15 World Long Distance and Channel Swimming Records, I had to say of this prestigious honour, it was the ‘icing on the cake’! Click for more details |
 | A new scheme to offer free swimming for elderly and young people at Charnwood Borough Council-owned pools has been backed by one of the world's best long-distnace swimmers.
Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE is encouraging as many people as possible to take advantage of the initiative when it is launched at the beginning of April. Click for more details |
 | Last year it was butterfly in the UK’s lakes and lochs, but this month, Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, became the scene of a new venture – the challenge was 50 miles through some of Ireland’s scenic waterways, beginning at Crom estate in the Upper lough and finishing at Belleek on the Lower Lough, just outside the famous Pottery. Click for more details |
 | From MBE to doctor in a year – what’s the secret of champion swimmer Julie Bradshaw’s success? (Jacqueline Morley reports...) Click for more details |
 | “That’s an endurance feat in its own right”, commented a canoeist at the evening reception of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Annual Lough Erne Championship. His question to me had been how many strokes had I done in my latest world record butterfly swim! This prompted my thoughts, as it was, indeed, a very interesting one. Click for more details |
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