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Long Beach, California, Sept. 2012

At the Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, Sri Chinmoy was posthumously inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as a mentor, inspirer and "Honour Administrator" during the induction ceremony on Sept. 22nd, 2012.

Quoting from the Daily News of Open Water Swimming and Openwaterpedia:

"Sri Chinmoy, who passed away in 2007, was an Indian spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete. He inspired many in the endurance world and is the namesake of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team that holds many athletic events worldwide including the International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Schwimmen.

Sri Chinmoy advocated self-transcendence by expanding one's consciousness to conquer the mind's perceived limitations. In the spirit of self‑transcendence, his students have completed extraordinary feats of endurance. Members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team have swum the English Channel over forty times and are an integral part of the renowned and always popular International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Schwimmen.

His legacy will be recognized at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference and honored the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame dinner on the RMS Queen Mary on September 22nd in Long Beach, California."

Members of the International Marathon Team, including Channel swimmers Vasanti Niemz from Germany and Abhejali Bernadova from Czech Republic introduced Sri Chinmoy and his legacy to the audience and accepted the IMSHOF Certificate on Sri Chinmoy's behalf.

(Foto: Lexie Kelly, Steven Munatones, Vasanti Niemz, Shelley Taylor-Smith, Abhejali Bernadova)

Steven Munatones, Vice-President and Chief Administrator of the board of directors of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in turn was honoured and awarded the Torch Bearer Award of the World Harmony Run founded by Sri Chinmoy in 1987 (and since 2013 renamed Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run) for his selfless and untiring inspiration and efforts in the field of global open water swimming.

Many honourees and guests were happy to then share a moment of peace with the torch.

More on Vasanti's blog www.channel-triathlon.com

Sri Chinmoy honoured at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference Sept. 2012, Long Beach

With Diana Nyad (Xtreme Dream - Cuba-Florida), swimming legend Greta Andersen and Marcos Diaz (Swim Across the Continents)

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The Self-Transcendence 12 Hour Walk was held as usual on April 12th this year on the Jamaica Track circuit in Queens, New York. As in most recent stagings of the event, this year's was a night time race from 7pm to 7am (starting on the 12th and finishing on the 13th).

Conditions were tougher than usual with unseasonally cold weather affecting the east coast - many participants found it took a lot of energy just to stay out on the course in the freezing and windy weather.

The UK contingent among the pan-national field was exclusively female this time, with seven participants from London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge and Cardiff. Well done to all those who took part - just getting to the start line on this occasion was courageous enough!

Stef 38.5 miles Nurari 38.5 miles Shinja 38.5 miles Julia 33.9 miles Hita 32.7 miles Fran 23.3 miles Arpita 15.1 miles

Distances shown are for the total of completed laps - additional distances walked after passing the lap counters for the last time are not recorded. Sorry the pictures are a bit blurred - you may not be able to recognise the walkers!