CARINA TO FEATURE ON GILLETTE WORLD SPORT
29 May 2006
Gillette World Sport Special is a weekly half hour sports magazine program that combines exciting action with exclusive stories and profiles of some of the world's leading sportsmen and women. More
CARINA CONQUERS FALSE BAY
26 February 2006
Carina Bruwer, Capetonian marathon swimmer, today swam the 35km across FasleBay successfully, becoming only the third person ever, and the first South African woman, to do so. She started from Rooi Els around 06:45, and walked ashore at Millers’ Point 10h58mins later. More
BRUWER CROSSES THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
1 August 2005
Carina Bruwer today became the 23 rd South African to successfully cross the English Channel, swimming the 36km from England to France in unpredictable conditions in a time of 12h03. More
CARINA WINS IN GREECE
24 July 2005
Carina Bruwer was the first female, and fourth swimmer overall, to complete yesterday’s International Swimming crossing of the Toroneos Gulf in Greece. More
TRAINING FOR EUROPE
3 July 2005
Having just returned to South Africa from Spain after her record breaking crossing of the Straits of Gibraltar, Carina is stepping up her training for two upcoming marathon swims in Greece and England respectively. More
CARINA BREAKS STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR WORLD RECORD
15 June 2005
Carina Bruwer today became the fastest female to swim across the Gibraltar Straits, from Tarifa Point in Spain to Morocco in Africa . She finished the 16km swim in 3h35, taking just 2 minutes off the previous record set by Indian swimmer MS Bula Chowdhury in 2000. More
CARINA SMASHES ROBBEN ISLAND RECORD ON FREEDOM DAY
27 April 2005
Carina Bruwer has, on South African Freedom Day, smashed the all-time record for swimming the 11km around Robben Island - a world heritage site and one of the greatest symbols of freedom and liberation. With the 11km, Carina and her crew celebrated the 11th anniversary of South Africa's Democracy. More
COLD CHALLENGES SWIMMERS IN VISTA NOVA BIG SWIM 2005
17 April 2005
Carina finished 10th overall, and 2nd to Natalie du Toit in the female category of the annual Vista Nova Big Swim from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand which took place on Saturday 16 April. 39 swimmers out of 69 entries completed the individual crossing. Water temperatures were low (starting at 13.5 degrees but dropping to below 12 at places), and swimmers had to fight chop for the first 2km of the swim, as well as a strong current near the end, which slowed down the times considerably. More
CARINA NOMINATED FOR COVETED KANNA
1 April 2005
Carina Bruwer's Classical Recital with Este Visser on piano was nominated for a coveted Kanna Awards at this year's Klein Karoo Arts Festival which took place in Oudtshoorn from 25 March until 2 April 2005. The award for best Classical production was eventually won by the Tygerberg Children's Choir. There were three nominations in a Category of about 40 productions. More
ICY WATERS FOILS FALSE BAY CROSSING ATTEMPT
17 March 2005
Carina Bruwer's attempt to cross False Bay - the country’s ultimate marathon swim and one of the most daunting in the world - was cut short by icy waters. After weeks of waiting for suitable conditions, Carina started the 35km swim at 7AM on Thursday 17 March, at Miller's Point. Despite flat seas, conditions proved to be unsuitable for this marathon attempt, as the water temperature remained around 14 and 15 degrees. More
PRESIDENTIAL PERFORMANCE AND ANOTHER SWIMMING RECORD FOR CARINA
18 October 2004
Stellenbosch flautist Carina Bruwer arrived back in Cape Town today after on Friday becoming the first person to swim around both the Southern-most and Northern-most ends of Africa when she rounded Ras Angela in Tunisia in a marathon swim ending in Sport Nautique, Bizerte, after performing for Presidents Mbeki and Ben Ali and many ministers and dignitaries earlier the week. More...
CARINA WINS COSMOPOLITAN AWARD
October 2004
Carina Bruwer has been announced as one of "Cosmo's Awesome Women of 2004", an annual feature in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, in celebration of South Africa's outstanding women achievers.
FLAUTIST FIRST TO SWIM DANGER POINT
11 August 2004
South Africa’s long distance swimming sensation and concert flautist Carina Bruwer has become the first swimmer to successfully round Danger Point. 24 year old Bruwer was exhausted but relieved after completing this grueling swim of 10,5km, which took her 3h16. More...
BRUWER SWIMS SOUTHERN-MOST AFRICA RECORD
27 April 2004
24 year old open water swimmer Carina Bruwer became the first South African, and first female, to successfully conquer the might of the confluence of two oceans, when she rounded Africa's southern-most tip, Cape Agulhas, in a record-time of 2 hours 16 minutes, on Freedom Day, 27 April. More...
FLAUTIST BECOMES FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN TO ROUND CAPE POINT
27 March 2004
This morning long distance swimmer and professional flautist Carina Bruwer became the first South African to successfully sound the Cape of Good Hope. In the process she also broke the long standing record of world renown American open water swimmer Lynne Cox. More...
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