British Gas Great North Swim 2012
- The UK's biggest outdoor swimming event – now taking place over 3 days
- A one-mile outdoor swim in beautiful Windermere, Cumbria
- Choose from 3 distances – 1 mile, ½ mile or 2 miles.
- Brilliant challenge for all swimming abilities, from first timers to Olympic champions
- Experience the thrill of open-water swimming, safe in the knowledge expert kayakers and safety boats are with you every stroke of the way
- Watch some of the world’s top swimmers go head-to-head in the elite races
- 10,000 entrants in 2011
- Entry prices – ½ mile £31, 1 mile £38, and 2 mile £46
- Highlights to be shown on TV
- Wetsuit only event
Over 9,000 swimmers have already entered the 2012 British Gas Great North Swim.
The two mile and half mile waves have reached full capacity, and all waves apart from the sub 30 wave are full on the Saturday.
There is still limited availability for the Sunday one mile waves.