Icelanders swim around Iceland
When the swimming campaign was launched yesterday morning in the Swimmingpool of Kópavogur. Photo/The Icelandic Olympic and Sports Association
Let’s swim (Syndum), the national swimming campaign, was officially launched in Kópavogur swimming pool yesterday morning. The aim of the campaign is to encourage the public to exercise more in their daily lives. The campaign lasts through the month of November.
Participants of the campaign can record the meters they swim, but the meters of nationals are collected on the front page of Syndum.is and it will be possible to see how many laps nationals have been swimming around Iceland.
Participants who record how many meters they swim on the website automatically enter a pool where they have the possibility to be be awarded prizes.
School children plan “swimming to Paris”
This is the third time the Let’s swim campaign has been launched, but this year the plan is to put a spotlight on the swimming lessons of primary schools and connect it to the Olympics in Paris 2024.
Two representatives of the Swimming Association are attending the Olympic Games in Paris next year, Anton Sveinn Mckee and Snæfríður Sól Jórunnardóttir. The journey to Paris from Iceland is 2,246 km and the plan is to get elementary school students in school swimming lessons to swim what corresponds to the journey to Paris.
The Icelandic Olympic and Sports Association is the organizer of the campaign in collaboration with the Icelandic Swimming Association. The addresses at the launch of the campaign were given by Hafsteinn Pálsson, from the executive board of ÍSÍ, Björn Sigurðsson, chairman of the Icelandic Swimming Association, and Ásdís Kristjánsdóttir, mayor of Kópavogur.
