{"id":487967,"date":"2021-09-26T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=487967"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:16:50","slug":"elizabeth-beisel-completes-block-island-swim-raises-more-than-130000-for-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/elizabeth-beisel-completes-block-island-swim-raises-more-than-130000-for-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Beisel Completes Block Island Swim, Raises More than $130,000 for Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Beisel Completes Block Island Swim, Raises More than $130,000 for Cancer Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel<\/strong> on Saturday became the first woman to swim to Block Island, a 10.4-mile trip. The Block Cancer swim<\/a>, done in memory of her late father, has raised more than $130,000 for cancer research and awareness via a partnership with Swim Across America.<\/p>\n

Beisel covered the distance<\/a> in five hours and 19 minutes, departing from Matunuck beach just after 6 a.m. on Saturday. She was greeted on the island by her mother, Joannie, and brother Danny. A group of supporters awaited her at Ballad\u2019s Beach Resort later in the day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt amazing the first three hours,\u201d Beisel told the <\/a>Providence Journal.<\/em> \u201cI was like, \u2018Ah, this is cake.\u2019 Then the current started to pick up. The swell started to pick up. There was a bit of a (riptide) coming into Block Island, and that\u2019s kind of when I started to get discouraged and in my own head.\u201d<\/p>\n

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