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[[File:Screen Shot 2020-12-28 at 2.26.34 PM.png|400px|thumb|right|Michelle White was a member of the [[Antarctica 2020]], a series of [[ice swimming]] challenges and [[environmental swim]]s inside the [[Antarctic Circle]] (66°33′46.5″ south) that was nominated for the 2020 [[World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year]]]]
[[File:White 0190.JPG|400px|thumb|right|Michelle White of Ireland completes the [[Relay Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming]] with her teammates [[Jacqueline Cole]], [[Jeannie Zappe]], [[Louise Darlington]], [[Janine Serell]] and [[Hugh Darlington]] and crew of the [[Channeling Greatness]] [[relay]] team at the age of 43]][[File:White 0187.JPG|400px|thumb|right|Michelle White of Ireland completes the [[Relay Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming]]]][[File:Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 1.51.25 PM.png|400px|thumb|right|Michelle White's [[WOWSA]] Certificate and ratification of her [[Relay Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming]]]]
Michelle White is a 49-year-old Irish [[open water swimmer]] from Navan who participates in channel crossing relays and [[winter swimming]] events.

==Open Water Swimming Career Highlights==

*She became the first known swimmer to complete the [[Relay Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming]].
**[[English Channel]] completed in 17 hours 10 minutes on 6 September 2012 with [[Alan Duffy]], [[Peig Toombes]], [[Pattie Legg]], Michelle White, [[Fiona McCormack]] on the [[Naval Channel Swimmers]] [[relay]] at the age of 40
**[[Manhattan Island Marathon Swim]] in 9 hours 27 minutes on 13 September 2014 with [[Jeannie Zappe]], Michelle White, [[Hugh Darlington]], [[Sophie Ruthenbar]], [[Louise Darlington]], [[Susan Czechowski]] on the [[Channeling Greatness]] [[relay]] team at the age of 42
**[[Catalina Channel]] completed in 11 hours 1 minute on 15 September 2015 with [[Jacqueline Cole]], [[Jeannie Zappe]], [[Louise Darlington]], Michelle White, [[Janine Serell]] and [[Hugh Darlington]] on the [[Channeling Greatness]] [[relay]] team at the age of 43
*The [[Celtic Kippers]] [[relay]] team completed a [[crossing]] of the [[North Channel]] with [[Michelle Booker]], [[Donagha McDonagh]], [[Rose Long]], [[Barry O'Connor]], Michelle White and [[Noel Grimes]] in 13 hours 36 minutes 34 seconds.
*She participated in the [[Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival]] in [[Lake Memphremagog]], Vermont on 23-25 February 2018.
*On 25 February, she completed a 200m freestyle in 5 minutes 0 seconds in [[Deception Island]] in [[Antarctica]] in 1.60°C water at the age of 49 in the [[Antarctica 2020]] [[ice swimming]] event.

==2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year Nomination==

White participated in the [[Antarctica 2020 International Swim]] that was nominated for the 2020 [[WOWSA Awards]] in the [[World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year]] category with the following nomination: ''The [[Southern Ocean]] is at the bottom of the world surrounding the continent of Antarctica.  Inhospitable to humans, but remarkably, [[Ger Kennedy]] organized a series of ice swims accessible around the ice-covered tundra to some of the most hardened [[ice swimmer]]s on the planet.  Antarctica 2020 International Swim was held inside the [[Antarctic Circle]] to celebrate [[Lynne Cox]]'s pioneering [[Antarctica]] swim in 2002 and enable people to swim short distances or [[Polar Ice Mile]]s.  From Argentina, the Polar Swimming Quest set off by ship and stopped in the [[Bellingshausen Sea]] and the [[Weddell Sea]] over a few weeks.  12 swimmers entered the cold waters of [[Antarctica]] with [[bioprene]] only with three major swims safely recorded.  [[Paul Eugen Dorin Georgescu]] set a world record in [[Hanusse Bay]] in 0.0°C water with 22 minute 44 second [[Zero Ice Mile]].  Two days later, [[Ger Kennedy]] swam another [[Zero Ice Mile]] in [[Paradise Bay]] in 0.53°C water and -1.10°C air in 34 minutes 2 seconds, and [[Cath Pendleton]] followed up 10 days later in [[Hanusse Bay]] with a 32:54 [[Zero Ice Mile]] in 0.03°C water and -3.2°C air.  For safely organizing swims by [[Kathryn Pratschke]], [[Redy Redfern]], [[Dee Newell]], [[Jane Hardy]], [[Tiffiny Quinn]], Michelle White, [[Una Campbell]], [[Martina Ring]], [[Anne O'Donovan]], [[Matías Ola]], and [[Alice Kelliher]] in [[Antarctica]] with the help of [[Sean Cullen]] and [[Dimcea Lulian Zamfir]], for encouraging marine conservation awareness while encountering challenging conditions, and for enabling the extension of the known physical boundaries for everyone involved, the Antarctica 2020 International Swim by [[Ger Kennedy]] is a worthy nominee for the 2020 [[World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year]].''

==External links==

* [https://www.openwaterswimming.com/white-water-swimming-snow/ White, Water, Swimming, Snow]
* [https://www.openwaterswimming.com/antarctica-swimmers-describe-ice-swimming-on-wowsa-live/ Antarctica 2020 Swimmers Describe Ice Swimming On WOWSA Live]
* [https://www.openwaterswimming.com/when-orcas-enter-the-swim-zone/ When Orcas Enter The Swim Zone]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2020-wowsa-awards-world-open-water-swimming-offering-of-the-year-nominees/ 2020 WOWSA Awards – World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Nominees]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2016/03/channeling-greatness-with-michelle-white/ Thrice Is Nice With Michelle White]
* [http://www.triplecrownofopenwaterswimming.com Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming]
* [http://www.nycswim.org New York City Swim]
* [https://www.dover.uk.com/channel-swimming/swimmers/michelle-white Dover Channel Swimming]
* [http://www.wowsa.org World Open Water Swimming Association]
* [http://www.openwaterswimming.com Open Water Swimming]
* [http://www.marathonswimming.com Marathon Swimming]
* [http://www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com Daily News of Open Water Swimming]
* [http://www.igotstung.com I Got Stung]
* [http://www.worldmarathonswimmingassociation.com World Marathon Swimming Association]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2016/06/celtic-kippers-cross-north-channel/ Celtic Kippers Cross The North Channel]
* [https://openwaterswimming.com/2018/02/freestyling-out-of-wood-into-ice/ Freestyling Out Of The Wood Into The Ice]

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