Paul Duffield

Paul Duffield is a Canadian open water swimmer from British Columbia who is an ice swimmer.

Open Water Swimming Highlights

• He was a member of the successful, unprecedented 6-day Bering Strait Swim relay, a 53-mile (86 km) relay crossing from Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka, Russia, to Cape Prince of Wales in the state of Alaska, USA that was selected as the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year. Duffield is also Canada's first certified swimmer to complete an ice mile, ratified by the International Ice Swimming Association.
• He was the first person to swim 11 km across Osoyoos Lake from Oroville, Washington, USA to Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada on 6 September 2014.
• He was honored in 2011 by Okanagan Masters Swim Club for the Most Improved Male Swimmer
• He was honored in 2012 for completing Canada’s first Ice Mile: 1.08 miles in 36 minutes 50 seconds in 4.33°C water on 23 December 2012 in Lake Okanagan, Canada by observer Ram Barkai and witness Kieron Palframan.
• He starred in Ice Swim 2012 - The Movie
• He completed his second Ice Mile: 1.44 miles in 54 minutes 2 seconds on 2 March 2013 in Gellatly Bay, West Kelowna, Canada in 4.00°C water and 0.00°C air.
• He starred in Ice Swim 2013 – The Movie
• In 2013, he was appointed as one of 10 global ice swimming ambassadors by International Ice Swimming Association.
• In 2013, he was a Finalist in the Kelowna Civic awards for Male Athlete of the Year by the Kelowna Civic Awards.
• In 2013, he was the Winner of the Jan Morrow Award that is awarded to a swimmer who demonstrates determination, inspiration and a positive attitude within the swimming community.

2013 Bering Strait Swim Relay Members

1. Yuri Tsiganchuk, Blagoveshchensk, Russia
2. Yuri Myagkikh, Russia
3. Vladimir Chegorin, Russia
4. Maria Chizhova, Novosibirsk, Russia
5. Elena Guseva, Russia
6. Kieron Palframan, Cape Town, South Africa
7. Ram Barkai, Cape Town, South Africa
8. Jack Bright, UK
9. Vladimir Litvinov, Blagoveshchensk, Russia
10. Oksana Veklich, Blagoveshchensk, Russia
11. Aleksandr Jakovlev, Jelgava, Latvia
12. Matías Ola, Buenos Aires /Tucuman Argentina
13. Henri Kaarma, Tallinn, Estonia
14. Toomas Haggi, Tallinn, Estonia
15. Nuala Moore, Ireland
16. Anne Marie Ward, Donegal, Ireland
17. Claudia Rose, San Diego, USA
18. Toks Viviers, Cape Town, South Africa
19. Melissa O’Reilly (‘Mo’), Lambertville, New Jersey, USA
20. Ryan Stramrood, Cape Town, South Africa
21. Scott Lautman, Seattle, Washington, USA
22. Cristian Vergara, Santiago, Chile
23. Lelané Rossouw-Bancroft, Newark, Delaware, USA
24. Rafał Ziobro, Krakow, Poland
25. Andrew Chin, Cape Town, South Africa
26. Jackie Cobell, Tunbridge Wells, UK
27. Paul Duffield, West Kelowna, BC, Canada

External links

• Going Where No Man Has Gone Before: Krzysztof Kubiak Swims 3,750 meters In 4.3°C Water
• How Cold Can Cold Get?
• Paul Georgescu Sets Another World Record
• International Ice Swimming Association bio
• International Ice Swimming Association first Ice Mile
• Nothing Great Is Easy
• The Who's Who Of Extremists Gather At Top Of World
• International Relay Swim Across The Bering Strait Official Website
• Bering Strait Swim
• Bering Strait Swim - Ice Bering
• Do Ice Swimmers Have Bigger Brains?
• What Open Water Swim Could Be More Dangerous?
• Bering Strait Swim Succeeds
• Ice Mile, Swimming's Toughest Test
• O Canada! Oroville To Osoyoos
• A Very Unusual Request
• FINIS Sponsorship
• Slow Painful Awesome