Team STS Turkey Tour

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The Team STS Turkey Tour includes two options: Option 1 includes the Bosphorous Strait Swim, Option 2 includes the Gallipoli Swim. Both options are led by Shelley Taylor-Smith and are limited to 100 individuals from Australia and New Zealand.

Gallipoli Swim

The Gallipoli 1915 Memorial Swim is an open water swimming event organized by the Turkish Olympic Committee in the Anzac Cove, Gallipoli to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli on 1 August 2015 in Canakkale, Turkey.

Bosphorous Strait Swim

The Bosphorous Strait Swim (or the Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim, Samsung Bosphorus Cross Continental Swimming Race, Samsung Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari, or Samsung Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı is one of the World's Top 100 Open Water Swims and the Top 50 Open Water Swims In Asia. It is located in the Istanbul Strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in Turkey. Bosphorus is the world’s most narrow strait used for international navigation and enables participants to claim they swam between Asia and Europe. The course is from Kanlica on the Asian side of the Bosphorus to Kuruçesme on the European side of the Bosphorus.

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