Continents To Merge With Strokes Once Again
2016 WOWSA Award winner Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swimming Race is scheduled for 23 July this year. The quota of 1100 foreign swimmers was filled within 16 hours earlier this month. The registration system will remain open until 15 March for Turkish citizens.
Turkish Olympic Committee’s (TOC) traditional “Sports For All” organisation Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim was selected the 2016 World Open Water Offering of the Year by the World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA). It will be the 29th edition of the event on Sunday, 23 July 2017.
The race receives great interest from abroad every year. When the applications opened on the TOC's official website http://bogazici.olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr on 4th of January this year, 728 male and 372 female swimmers from 49 countries filled the limited quota of 1100 foreign swimmers in only 16 hours.
The 6.5 km Samsung Bosphorus
Cross-Continental Swimming Race starts from Kanlıca on the Asian side of