Mark Gorry (Fish)
Age 39
Mark is a reserve swimmer for the team, and is also helping out with training.
Being raised near the beach, Mark has been an open water swimmer since learning to swim at 5, and as a junior competed in the bay swims at Peel, Ramsey and Port St Mary.
In the pool Mark has swum for the Isle of Man team at 5 Island Games in Backstroke and Freestyle, including the Mens 4x100m Freestyle gold medal at the Faroe Islands.
In 2005 he was in the first swimming team to cross from Scotland to the Isle of Man, raising funds for the IoM Children’s Centre.
He was also in the 4-person team that swam 32miles from end-to-end of the Isle of Man in 12½ hours, along with Carole Laporte, the other founder member of the Isle of Man Open Water Swimming Club.
He has competed at two Great North Swims, including a 5th in heat, and has swum the Derwent 3.8k.
With his officials hat on, Mark is Chairman of the IOM OW SC, and has run the Queenie Festival Manx Mile each year since 2009, as well as having been an ASA timekeeper, Judge and Starter and ASA Swimming Teacher with Southern IOM swimming club.
Mark and Carole started up the IOM OW _ swimming club around 5 years ago when there weren't any other regular sea swimmers they were aware of on the Island, and is very pleased that it has now grown into a full squad with at least a dozen swimming each week even in the depths of winter and 60+ in the Queenie Festival.
Apart from a spell playing Rugby at Nomads, most of Mark’s sporting interests are water-based, including water polo, scuba diving, kayaking, coasteering, occasional tri-athlons and teaching his two girls to swim and snorkel.
Mark is a reserve swimmer for the team, and is also helping out with training.
Being raised near the beach, Mark has been an open water swimmer since learning to swim at 5, and as a junior competed in the bay swims at Peel, Ramsey and Port St Mary.
In the pool Mark has swum for the Isle of Man team at 5 Island Games in Backstroke and Freestyle, including the Mens 4x100m Freestyle gold medal at the Faroe Islands.
In 2005 he was in the first swimming team to cross from Scotland to the Isle of Man, raising funds for the IoM Children’s Centre.
He was also in the 4-person team that swam 32miles from end-to-end of the Isle of Man in 12½ hours, along with Carole Laporte, the other founder member of the Isle of Man Open Water Swimming Club.
He has competed at two Great North Swims, including a 5th in heat, and has swum the Derwent 3.8k.
With his officials hat on, Mark is Chairman of the IOM OW SC, and has run the Queenie Festival Manx Mile each year since 2009, as well as having been an ASA timekeeper, Judge and Starter and ASA Swimming Teacher with Southern IOM swimming club.
Mark and Carole started up the IOM OW _ swimming club around 5 years ago when there weren't any other regular sea swimmers they were aware of on the Island, and is very pleased that it has now grown into a full squad with at least a dozen swimming each week even in the depths of winter and 60+ in the Queenie Festival.
Apart from a spell playing Rugby at Nomads, most of Mark’s sporting interests are water-based, including water polo, scuba diving, kayaking, coasteering, occasional tri-athlons and teaching his two girls to swim and snorkel.