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22/09/22 21:57 PM IST

Elvis, Rimo first Indian relay team to cross North Channel

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  • Indian long-distance swimmers Elvis Ali Hazarika of Assam and West Bengal's Rimo Saha have made history by becoming the first relay team from the country as well as Asia to cross the North Channel in Europe.
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  • The ace swimmers also became the first from their respective states to successfully cross the North Channel, a strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland, in relay swimming.
  • The duo is the first Asian relay team to cross the North Channel and Hazarika is the oldest swimmer from India to achieve the feat in 14 hours and 38 minutes.
ABout Ali Hazarika
  • Ali Hazarika was born on December 21, 1981. They started swimming at the age of one and a half.
  • He swam across Dighalipukhuri in Guwahati when he was four years old.
  • At the age of nine, Ali Hazarika participated in the Asia Pacific Championship and represented India in the SAF Games.
  • Hazarika crossed 29km of the English Channel in an attempt to swim across it in June 2018. Also. he is the only Assamese to swim this distance on the channel till now.
North channel 
  • It is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland.
  • It begins north of the Isle of Man, where the Irish Sea ends, and runs north-west into the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The narrowest part of the strait lies between Mull of Kintyre and Torr Head.
  • The width of the channel here is 19 kilometers.
  • The deepest part is known as Beaufort’s Dyke.
  • The North Channel is a part of the marine area and International Hydrographic Organisation officially classifies it as the “Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland”.
Source- Times Now 

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