Nuala Moore is an Irish swimmer known for open water swimming and ice swimming.
| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Nuala Moore |
| Born | November 28, 1986 County Donegal, Ireland |
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| Sport | Swimming |
In 2006, she was one of six swimmers to swim around the coast of Ireland in a relay,[1][2] the first-ever swim of over 1300 km around the coast.[3] Then in 2008 she did a double relay crossing of the English Channel.[4]
She was the 2011 awardee of the Margaret Smith Award of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association, given for increasing the profile of open water swimming.[5] She won several medals in the first-ever World Ice Swimming Championship (2013, Murmansk, Russia).[6][7][8]
In 2013, Moore swam the Bering Strait in a relay[9][10][11] from Russia to the US. She was one of only four women, in March 2013 to "[complete] a 1000 metre swim at 0 degrees in Murmansk north of the arctic circle [sic]".[12] After her Bering Strait swim, she was nominated for World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year in 2013 [13] and chosen as one of the "People of the Year" by Irish adventure magazine Outsider.[14]
In 2015, she competed in the first Ice Swimming World Championships in Russia.[15] Also in 2015 she won an age group record for swimming 1000 metres in below-5 degree Celsius water.[16][17]
She was featured in a Science Gallery exhibit in 2014 on fat.[18][19]
References
edit- ^ 'Christmas Swim Anyone?' The Science Behind the Cold Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Science Gallery
- ^ Swim team reaches end of journey by Chris Ashmore 25 Aug 2006 Irish Times
- ^ Just hard going right from the off 7 July 2006, Irish Times
- ^ Nuala Moore: Becoming an ice queen Gary Quinn, 2014-06-02, Irish Times
- ^ Irish Who’s Who Honours Its Best And Toughest, Open Water Swimming
- ^ Meet Ireland’s ice milers – the toughest swimmers on the planet by Cian Roche, May 2015 Outsider.ie
- ^ Kerry woman is one of four in the world to compete in Arctic swim 27 March 2013 Radio Kerry
- ^ O'Flaherty, Marian (28 March 2013). "'Ice Lady' wins gold in arctic swim". The Kerryman. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ Irish swimmers complete Bering Strait relay by Chris Ashmore 2013-08-13 Irish Times
- ^ Think morning workouts are cold? Try Swimming the Bering Strait. Ireland's Moore reports SwimSwam by Mike Lewis 2013-11-05
- ^ Get voting for Nuala Moore, Padraig Mallon and the Bering Strait Swim By Michael O'Neill 30 December 2013 Sports News Ireland
- ^ Dingle woman part of relay team swimming from Russia to America Radio Kerry
- ^ Nuala Moore, Doing Things Big And Small, 1 November 2013, Open Water Swimming Daily
- ^ "Outsider People of the Year 2013". outsider.ie.
- ^ Ice swimmers head to Russia Archived 2016-01-31 at the Wayback Machine 16 March 2015, Irish Swimmer
- ^ Camlough Lake Water Festival results from 2015
- ^ Ice swimmer sets new world record 21 February 2015 The Kerryman
- ^ Fat: It's Delicious, May - June 2014, Dublin Science Gallery "Out in the Cold" segment about Nuala Moore
- ^ Tuesday Night Bites: Sheridan's Cheesemongers and Nuala Moore (Event notice from 2014-06-03) Science Gallery