Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Southern Ocean, Antarctica.
Antarctica 2020 International Swim is a series of ice swims and environmental swims held inside the Antarctic Circle (66°33′46.5″ south) that replicates and celebrates Lynne Cox‘s pioneering Antarctica 1.7 km swim in Neko Bay in 2002 and celebrates the 200-year anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen with swims in the Bellingshausen Sea and the Weddell Sea, organized by Irish ice swimmer Ger Kennedy.
Originally labeled as the Polar Swimming Quest, the following swimmers entered the Southern Ocean at the bottom of the world:
- Cath Pendleton, UK: 1610 meters in 32:54
- Paul Eugen Dorin Georgescu, Romania: 1610 meters in 22:44
- Ger Kennedy, Ireland: 1610 meters in 34:02
- Kathryn Pratschke, Ireland: 1000 meters in 24:40
- Redy Redfern, Great Britain: 1000 meters in 24:50
- Dee Newell, Ireland: 1000 meters in 22:20
- Jane Hardy, Great Britain: 1000 meters in 23:60
- Tiffiny Quinn, Ireland: 500 meters in 8:21
- Michelle White, Ireland: 250 meters in 5:00
- Una Campbell, Ireland: 200 meters in 4:00
- Martina Ring, Ireland: 200 meters in 3:06
- Anne O’Donovan, Ireland: 200 meters in 3:50
- Matías Ola, Argentina: 200 meters in 3:30
- Alice Kelliher, Ireland: 100 meters in 3:30
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