Amputee Swims 16 Hours For Charity
Published: August 9, 2005
Forty-seven-year-old Mike Welsch of Burlington was the first amputee ever to attempt to swim the length of the lake. He raised more than five thousand dollars with a 20-mile swim though he fell short of his goal.
Welsch set out Saturday night from the Alton public docks headed for the Mills Falls dock in Meredith. He came out of the water yesterday afternoon without reaching the Meredith dock after being slowed down by boaters’ wakes.
Welsch lost the lower part of his left leg in a motorcycle accident in 1979. He has raced in marathons, taken part in the annual eight-mile Boston Lighthouse swim in Boston Harbor seven times and raced in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, a 192-mile bicycle marathon across the Bay State that raises money for the Jimmy Fund.
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