IISA Member Bio

IISA ID:  78
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Pauline Barker
Country Ambassador

England
Plymouth
England
Great Britain
Country Association
Great Britain
ICE ID: 72
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Ice Miles: 10
ICE 7s: 1
Extreme: 5
About Pauline Barker
IISA Official.
IISA Ambassador.
IISA GB Chairman 2015 - 2017.
IISA Ice Mile 10

Pauline completed her first Ice Mile in January 2014 and in 2015 she completed a further two Ice Miles becoming the first woman in the world to have swum three Ice Miles.
In November 2016 she completed Ice Mile number 5 – the first ( and still only ) Ice Fly – an Ice Mile swim in Butterfly stroke and has since completed several more Ice Miles to bring the total ( so far ) to 10 - the only woman in the world to have swum so many Ice Miles and a figure only surpassed by Ram Barkai IISA founder and President.

She has competed in many International Ice Swimming events including Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Netherlands and USA and will be a participant in the first ever Antarctica 1 Kilometre event in November 2018.

She organises several open water swim sessions in and around Plymouth where she lives and likes to provide opportunities for those new to the sport to jump in and give it a try as well as encouraging more established swimmers to extend their swimming boundaries – safely of course!
She is the founder of the Polar Bear Challenge ( UK ) which is an Ice Swimming challenge to encourage swimmers to swim through the winter under IISA rules )

During the summer she becomes a long distance swimmer and has swum in 4 relays of the English Channel, a relay of Loch Ness and a solo 2 Way Windermere 21 miles as well as an English Channel solo in 2015 aborted after more than 13 hours due to string tides and winds. In 2017 she took part in the Lake Geneva Classic 12 swimming across Lake Geneva from Switzerland to France in 6 hours 40 minutes.

She is always happy to speak with anyone keen to take on the challenge of Ice Swimming and can be contacted through Facebook or by email to barkerpab@aol.com or through the links on her website devonandcornwallwildswimming.co.uk

Ice Miles

  Swim Date Swim
Location
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Swim
Dist.
Swim
Time
Body of
Water
Altitude (m)
GPS Latitude
   
1 30 Jan 2014 Kit Hill Quarry, Cornwall, UK 4.30°C 2.20°C 1.0000mi 0:47:32 Open Water 50.52°N view
2 4 Jan 2015 Kit Hill Quarry Cornwall 4.50°C 3.00°C 1.0000mi 0:45:13 Open Water 50.52°N view
3 14 Feb 2015 Lough Dan. Co. Wicklow. Rep... 3.80°C 5.60°C 1.0000mi 0:44:27 Open Water 53.07°N view
4 17 Jan 2016 Kit Hill Quarry, Cornwall, ... 4.73°C 0.00°C 1.0000mi 0:45:00 Lake 50.52°N view
5 23 Nov 2016 Harthill reservoir, Yorkshi... 4.73°C 4.00°C 1.0000mi 0:52:00 Lake 53.32°N view
6 28 Jan 2017 Volendam, Netherland 4.27°C 1.00°C 1.0000mi 0:40:22 Pool 52.50°N view
7 19 Jan 2018 Volendam, Netherlands 4.00°C 0.90°C 1.0000mi 0:42:02 Pool 52.50°N view
8 11 Feb 2018 Cornwall, England 3.33°C 1.90°C 1.0000mi 0:44:51 Lake 50.27°N view
9 17 Feb 2018 Lake 32, Cirencester, England. 3.07°C 0.00°C 1.0000mi 0:42:04 Lake 51.66°N view
10 24 Feb 2018 Kit Hill, Cornwall, England 2.97°C -4.50°C 1.0000mi 0:48:16 Lake 50.52°N view

IISA 1km Swims

Only IISA Swims <= 5.0°C
  Swim
Date
Event Name Country
Association
Event Venue Swim
Time
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Altitude (m)
GPS Latitude
AR ER WR WC    
1 10 Jan 2016 2. Aqua Sphere Ice Swi... Germany Burghausen 24:18.00 3.90°C 0.00°C           PDF Icon view
2 13 Mar 2016 PYRENEES ICE SWIMMING ... Spain Puigcerdà 25:26.00 4.00°C 0.00°C     ER     PDF Icon view
3 17 Dec 2016 River Labe CZ Ice Swim... Czech Republic Hradec Kralove 25:46.00 1.60°C -2.70°C           PDF Icon view
4 18 Dec 2016 ICE Cup (D+A) and Aust... Austria Vienna 21:51.98 4.30°C -2.00°C 48.21°N Open Water PDF Icon view
5 6 Jan 2017 2nd Ice Swimming Aqua ... Germany Burghausen, Bavaria 24:05.14 3.40°C -11.10°C           PDF Icon view
6 21 Jan 2017 World Cup, Polish Cham... Poland Katowice 26:34.64 1.50°C 0.00°C           PDF Icon view
7 28 Jan 2017 Dutch open ice swim ch... Netherlands Zwembad De Waterdam in... 24:53.06 4.20°C 7.00°C           PDF Icon view
8 30 Dec 2017 Amstel Ice Swim Netherlands Amsterdam 29:27.63 4.50°C 0.20°C 52.37°N Open Water PDF Icon view
9 13 Jan 2018 ICE Cup, Polish Champi... Poland Lake 3 Stawy Katowice 22:31.63 2.30°C -7.80°C 50.24°N Open Water PDF Icon view
10 21 Jan 2018 Dutch open ice swimming Netherlands Zwembad Waterdam Volendam 24:45.00 3.60°C 0.30°C           PDF Icon view
AR = Age-Group Record
ER = Swim Event Record
WR = World Record
WC = World Championship Record

Short and Other IISA distances

Only IISA Swims <= 5.0°C
Event Distance Swim Date Event Name Event Venue Country
Association
Swim Time
(mm:ss:cc)
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Altitude (m)
GPS Latitude
   
200m Freestyle 28 Jan 2017 Dutch open ice swim ch... Zwembad De Waterdam in... Netherlands 04:36.68 4.20°C 7.0°C 52.51°N PDF Icon view
200m Freestyle 22 Feb 2020 IISA Polish Champions... Katowice, lake Szlomio... Poland 00:06.50 4.00°C -4.0°C 50.24°N PDF Icon view

Qualifying Swims

IISA Qualifying Swims & IISA Event Swims > 5.0°C
  Swim
Date
Swim
Location
Event Name Swim
Distance
Stroke Status Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Swim
Time
Altitude
(m)
Observer    
1 26 Nov 2017 Kit Hill Quarry,... 1500m Crawl Accepted 7.20°C 7.00°C 40:00.00 - Katherine Short PDF Icon view
2 03 Dec 2017 Kit Hill Quarry,... 1000m Crawl Accepted 5.50°C 6.50°C 24:30.00 - James Vickery PDF Icon view
3 16 Dec 2017 Lake 32, Cirencester,... 800m Crawl Accepted 2.50°C 2.50°C 22:00.00 - kareena parkes PDF Icon view

Other Swims

Solo
  Swim
Date
Location
(Description)
Time
Taken
Swim
Distance
Avg Dist.
Per Day
Water
Temp
Wind
Chill
Observer /
Witness
Awards  
1 6 Feb 2016 Lough Dan, Ireland
(4th Eastern Bay...)
40:54 1,609 m - 5.4°C 0°C Fergal Somervile   view
2 3 Feb 2018 Lough Dan. Ireland
(Lake swim)
45:00 1,350 m - 4.4°C [hi]
0°C [lo]
0°C -   view

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