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The annual public Escape from Alcatraz triathlon, organized by IMG, now takes place in early June. The current course consists of a one-and-a-half-mile (2.4 km) swim starting near Alcatraz Island, a one-half-mile (0.80 km) run from the bay to the transition zone at Marina Green , an eighteen-mile (29 km) bike ride, and an eight-mile (13 km) run.
John William Anglin (born May 2, 1930) and Clarence Anglin (born May 11, 1931) were born into a family of 14 children in Donalsonville, Georgia.Their parents, George Robert Anglin and Rachael Van Miller Anglin, were seasonal farmworkers; in the early 1940s, they moved the family to Ruskin, Florida, 20 miles (32 km) south of Tampa, where the truck farms and tomato fields provided a more ...
The first attempt to escape the prison was made on April 27, 1936, by Joseph Bowers (Prisoner AZ210), who was assigned the duty of burning trash at the incinerator. He was working burning garbage at the island's incinerator during duty hours when he suddenly ran and began scaling a chain link fence at the edge of the island in an apparent attempt to make for the shore.
The final attempted escape from the prison, almost six months later, inspired what has become the swimming route of the "Escape from Alcatraz" triathlon. Both Al Capone and George "Machine Gun ...
June 1962 Alcatraz escape, possibly the only successful escape attempt from the prison; Escape from Alcatraz (triathlon), two triathlons held in the San Francisco Bay Area of California; Battle of Alcatraz, the result of an unsuccessful escape attempt which lasted from May 2 to 4, 1946
Bernard Paul "Barney" Coy (February 13, 1900 [1] – May 4, 1946) was an American bank robber and federal prisoner best known as the planner of a failed escape attempt from Alcatraz, on May 2, 1946, which turned into a bloody two-day armed confrontation leaving Coy, two fellow would-be escapees and two prison guards dead.
A mysterious letter sent to the San Francisco Police Department in 2013 by a man who claimed to have escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was just obtained by local television station KPIX. ...
There were 7 events in the 2024 T100 Triathlon: Miami T100 on 9 March; Singapore T100 on 13-14 April; San Francisco T100 on 8 June (held at the famous Escape From Alcatraz triathlon); the London T100 on 27-28 July; the Ibiza T100 on 28 September; the Lake Las Vegas T100 on 19 October; and the Dubai T100 Triathlon World Championship Final on 16 ...