Flowers Sea Swim
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The 2012 Flowers Sea Swim's beneficiary is Feed Our Future.
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Location
The beauty of the one-mile course is nearly beyond comprehension. The venue on Seven Mile Beach is simply stunning, a living aquarium. The warm tropical crystal-clear waters gently envelopes the swimmers in the protected, nearly always flat beach.
Seven Mile Beach is on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands, south of Cuba and east of Cancún, Mexico. The idyllic Caribbean Sea resort welcomes the swimmers with soft sea breezes and gorgeous white sands offset by the azul sea.
History
2012 is the 20th year of the annual event in June. Between 700 – 800 swimmers from all over the world, ages 8 to 80 years old, including numerous world champions and Olympic medalists, compete. Many enter to simply participate and finish the event. Some are competitive and strive to win the US$25,000 prize to break the world’s open water swimming mile record or the US$5,000 prize to break the course records (men and female).
Features
The highlight of the event is after all the swimmers arrive onshore and a drawing of over US$100,000 in prizes is randomly distributed to the field. Prizes include round-trip tickets on Cayman Airways, Digicel phones, Red Sail Sports activities, restaurant vouchers and holds the swimsuit-clad audience enraptured to the very end.
The excitement of the race, the hospitality of the organizers and the small details that are offered (e.g., offer of sunscreen before the race) are reasons to make this race an annual event on any open water swimmer’s calendar.
Distance
Straight point-to-point 1 mile
Type
Ocean
Location
City Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman Island
Country Cayman Islands
Region Americas
Contact
Name Frank Flowers and Dara Flowers
Email info@flowersseaswim.com
Event Information
Month: June
Website: www.flowerseaswim.com
Class: Professional and amateur
Wetsuit: No
Notes: S1-10 disabled athletes, Paralympians and Special Olympics athletes are welcomed.
Prizes: US$25,000 is given to the male and female athletes who break the world's ocean mile record. US$5,000 is given to those who break the course record. Over US$120,000 in prizes is given randomly to those athletes who will the world's largest open water swimming prize give-away after the end of the race.
Event Information
Sponsors: The Flowers Group has successfully organized, promoted and sponsored the one-mile sea swim for 19 years.
