Swim 9km this November for the 9 people in Australia who die from breast cancer every day
1,778
PEOPLE SWIMMING THIS NOVEMBER
$128,895
RAISED FOR BREAST
CANCER RESEARCH
About
Every day, 9 people die in Australia from breast cancer.
We're asking you to join Swim For Breast Cancer by swimming 9km throughout November and raising funds for world-class breast cancer research to help save lives.
Because every death is one too many, and research is critical to better understand, prevent, detect, treat and stop breast cancer from taking the lives of the people we love.
Will YOU make a splash to save lives?
How it works
1. SIGN UP
Sign up to swim throughout November for the 9 people in Australia who die from breast cancer every day.
2. RAISE FUNDS
Share your challenge far and wide and raise funds to support world-class breast cancer research to help save lives.
3. SWIM
Start your challenge and log your kilometres to achieve your goals and Swim for Breast Cancer with our community across Australia.
Vesna Morosin was pregnant with her daughter, Amelie, when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Last year, mother and daughter took on the Swim for Breast Cancer challenge together.
'I love swimming and I liked the idea of doing one of my favourite things to help breast cancer research. My mum swims too, and she tells me stories about how she used to swim when she was pregnant with me and recovering from treatment. She had a mastectomy while pregnant with me, and swimming helped her build her strength back up after surgery.'
Join Amelie and Vesna this year by taking on your own swimming challenge to raise vital funds for breast cancer research.
Reach fundraising milestones
Get your first donation and unlock your FREE Vorgee swimming cap
(Limited to 5,000)
Raise $500 and unlock your FREE Vorgee goggles!
(Limited to 600)
Raise $1,000 and go in the draw to WIN 1 of 5x sets of Vorgee swimmers!
Raise $1,500 and unlock your Pink Hearts Club towel
(Limited to 300)
How far will YOU swim for breast cancer research?
9km
OR 11 laps per day*
*Laps of a 25m pool
18km
OR 23 laps per day*
*Laps of a 25m pool
27km
OR 39 laps per day*
*Laps of a 25m pool
Need help figuring out your distance?
I want to swim km in a m pool over sessions.
Fill out the fields to calculate your laps.
tHE lEADERBOARD
SPONSOR - VORGEE
For Vorgee, supporting the Swim Challenge is about more than swimming.
Vorgee has proudly supported the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) for close to twenty years, making it one of our longest partnerships, and this year we are thrilled to extend that partnership as an official supporter of the Swim for Breast Cancer Swim Challenge.
Over the past two years, we have seen the Swim Challenge bring together the swimming community we have been part of for over two decades in support of world-class breast cancer research and NBCF's vision of Zero Deaths from breast cancer.
A vision that is deeply personal to us.
We look forward to seeing pools turn pink again this November as swimmers across Australia pull on their pink caps and turn something they love into something much bigger.
“Our partnership with NBCF is about two things: hope and honour. It’s how we honour those in our family, workplace, and wider circles whose lives have been impacted by breast cancer, and it’s about the hope that life-changing research will make a future with Zero Deaths from breast cancer possible. As a business immersed in swimming, seeing our community come together through the Swim Challenge to help make that future possible means an enormous amount to us”
- Maria Vorgias, Operations Manager, Vorgee
