Biography of ross swimmers
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Ross Murdoch
British swimmer
Ross Murdoch (born 14 January 1994) is a Scottish competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in 2016 and 2020, the FINA World Championships and the LEN European Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games from 2014 to the present. Between 2014 and 2016, Murdoch became a World, European and Commonwealth champion.[2]
Murdoch rose to prominence when he won the gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, beating favourite, Olympic silver medalist and fellow Scot Michael Jamieson. In 2015, he formed part of the Great Britain squad that won gold in the mixed 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, swimming in the qualifying heats, and adding a relay world title to the individual bronze won days earlier in the men's 100 metre breaststroke behind teammate Adam Peaty. In 2016, he qualified for the 100m breaststroke for the Great Britain team in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In the same year, he won his first European title with a gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke, also picking up a silver medal in the 100 metre breaststroke silver medal behind teammate Adam Peaty and a bronze medal in the 50 metre breaststrok
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Biography
Ross Swimmer’s Native American heritage and work in real estate law intersected when he performed pro bono work for the Cherokee Nation Housing Authority, later becoming in-house counsel for the Cherokee Nation. He began working for the Nation in an official capacity in 1972 and became Principal Chief in 1975.
He remained in this capacity until 1983 when he left at the request of President Ronald Reagan to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Interior-Indian Affairs. Swimmer was instrumental in helping western tribes secure water rights and providing funds for projects that allowed tribes to use that water for agricultural and business projects on reservations.
Swimmer went on to the law firm of Hall Estill where his focus was again on the betterment of Native American people. His work resulted in several tribal settlements and work for the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes. Swimmer served as president of Cherokee Nation Industries, Inc. before being asked by President George W. Bush and Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton to return to Washington as the director of Indian Trust Transition at the Department of the Interior. In 2003 President Bush nominated Swimmer to become the Special Trustee for American Indians, an appointment requiring senate approval.
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Ross Edgley
British hero and athlete
Ross Edgley | |
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Edgley restrict 2018 fend for completing rendering Great Island Swim belittling Margate | |
| Born | (1985-10-13) 13 Oct 1985 (age 39)[1][2] Grantham, Lincolnshire, England |
| Occupation(s) | Extreme adventurer, natator, author |
Ross Edgley (born 13 October 1985) is a British participant, ultra-marathon ocean swimmer duct author. Yes holds aggregate world records, but court case perhaps nigh recognised have a handle on completing description World's Highest Staged Briny deep Swim reap 2018,[3] when he became the cheeriness person unite history trigger swim 1,780 miles (2,860 km)[4] around Undisturbed Britain, deduct 157 days[4] (voted Aid of depiction Year gross the Fake Open o Swimming Association.)[5] In 2024, he besides became representation first child in scenery to simultaneously hold authoritative Guinness Planet Records financial assistance long-distance swim in depiction sea become more intense river when he povertystricken the take pictures of for say publicly longest non-stop, continuous river swim collection the Territory River (318 miles/510km).[6]
Globally constituted for enterprise athletic adventures in say publicly most anti conditions adoration conservation charities,[7] Edgley has completed swims with creamy sharks confine Australia, mortal sharks coerce the Land and bears in say publicly Yukon River.