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Diana Nyad / ˈ n aɪ ˌ æ d / (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. [2] Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan (28 mi or 45 km) in record time.
The brand-new film Nyad, streaming now on Netflix, stars Annette Bening as swimmer Diana Nyad. It follows Nyad's attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida, which she first tried in 1978 at age 28 ...
Diana Nyad, fresh from her record-breaking swim from Cuba to Florida, swims the last minutes of her 48-hour continuous ‘Swim For Relief’ benefiting Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts in 2013 ...
Nyad became a world-renowned swimmer in the 1970s, and made headlines in 1975 at age 25 for setting a world record by swimming around the island of Manhattan in less than eight hours — beating ...
Nyad is a 2023 American biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad's multiple attempts in the early 2010s to swim the Straits of Florida, with flashbacks to her early life. It is directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (in their feature narrative film directorial debut ) and written by Julia Cox on the basis of Nyad's ...
Narration of the documentary is made by Diana Nyad, an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. [2] Nyad first got national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan island and in 1979 from the Bahamas to Florida. In 2013, at age 64, after many long-distance swimming exploits, she became the first ...
Nyad tells the story of Diana Nyad, a marathon swimmer who broke records and achieved a number of firsts in the sport.At the age of 60, she decided to complete the feat she wasn’t able to when ...
New Netflix film tells the incredible story of Diana Nyad’s quest to swim 110 miles over open water without the use of a shark cage