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The Big K Swim – Get Set 4 Swimming Helping Charity

n September 2016, Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE and her Team at Get Set 4 Success (Get Set 4 Swimming) will be helping a group of nine swimmers, mostly ex-servicemen to swim the length of England’s longest lake, Windermere. This is...

60th Anniversary of Guinness World Records BBC Radio

30th August 2015 | Tags: ,

On Thursday 27th August, 2015, Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE, spoke with Mark Forest about her many swimming world records. The BBC interview was broadcast countrywide on the day of the 60th anniversary of Guinness World Records. Julie spoke with Mark...

English Channel Swim Success for Mark Sowerby

12th August 2015 | Tags:

Since August 2014 Australian based Mark Sowerby has been training hard to swim the English Channel to raise funds for Starlight Children’s Charity. Over the year he has been helped on his journey and with his training by various people...

Interview with Adrian Chiles on Open Water Swimming 28 July

29th July 2015 | Tags:

r. Julie Bradshaw MBE was speaking with Adrian Chiles about Open Water Swimming and her experiences since she began in 1977. Adrian had previously been to interview Julie at her Endless Pool in Loughborough a short while before her Manhattan...

Charity English Channel Swim to Raise Money for Rainbows

Swimming champion and multiple world record holder, Dr Julie Bradshaw MBE, is encouraging people from across Leicestershire to take part in a charity summer swim to help raise money for Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People. Swimmers of any...

Windermere Open Water Swimming Camp June 2015

24th June 2015 | Tags:

Open Water Swimmers of all ages and abilities (including prospective Channel and Windermere solo swimmers) came to the recent Windermere Open Water Swimming Camp from 19th to 21st June held at Lake Windermere. The swimmers were based at the beautiful...

“Madfish” Julie Out of Water to help Archie in Charity Event

17th February 2015 | Tags: , , ,

Loughborough’s own World Record and English Channel Swimming superstar, Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE (nicknamed ‘Madfish’) is going the extra mile this time on land rather than in water. She is joining a host of celebrities, including Daniel Whiston (Dancing On...

Mark’s Channel SwimTraining with Julie for Starlight

10th February 2015 | Tags: , ,

Australian based, Mark Sowerby is in training for his English Channel swim in August 2015. He has enlisted the coaching services of Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE and has been writing his own bog about his forthcoming swim attempt which he...