Sun Moon Lake International Swimming Carnival
Sun Moon Lake International Swimming Carnival (Sun-Moon Lake Ten-Thousand Swimming Carnival) is the world's largest mass participation open water swim. The 2 km, 3.3 km and 10 km cross-lake point-to-point swim, organized under the leadership of Professor Morrie Chiang, is held in central Taiwan in Sun Moon Lake and is ranked among the Top 50 Open Water Swims In Asia and the World's Top 100 Open Water Swims. After growing large, the non-competitive, non-timed event is now capped at 25,000 participants who all must use a swim buoy.
Distances
2 km, 3 km, 10 km
Type
Lake
Location
City Sun Moon Lake at Ita Thao Pier
Country Taiwan
Region Asia
Contact
Race Director Professor Morrie Chiang
Email [pulifourswim@gmail.com pulifourswim@gmail.com]
Event Information
Month: September
Event Date: September 8, 2013
Website: www,pulifourswim.com
Class: Amateur
Wetsuit: No
Video
External Links
- Wen-Erh Hsu Overcomes "It Is Too Dangerous To Get In The Sea"
- Sun Moon Lake International Swimming Carnival website
- Top 50 Open Water Swims in Asia
- World's Top 100 Open Water Swims
- Morrie Chiang, Sun Moon Lake Director
- From 10 To 76 In Sun Moon Lake
- 22,000 Competitors At The Start Line
- Sun Moon Lake Swim, Open Water Phenomena
- Disabled Are Enabled At Sun Moon Lake
- When Big Is Huge: Sun Moon Lake Swimming Carnival
- Open Water Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Last Man Standing
- 100 New Year's Resolutions For Open Water Swimmers
- Top 25 Places And Events In Openwaterpedia
- Inflated And Ready To Go
- When 0.15% Is Huge
- Be Safer, Be Seen
- Hsin-Yi Fang, Saleh Mohammad Win Sun Moon Lake 10 km
