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The Catalina Channel, 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi) between Catalina Island and the California mainland; The 20 Bridges Swim (formerly known as Manhattan Island Swim), a 48.5-kilometre (30.1 mi) circumnavigation of Manhattan Island, New York City. As of October 2023, 366 swimmers had earned this distinction. [1]
Gus Sundstrom (October 28, 1858-September 9, 1936) was the first swim instructor and swim coach at Manhattan's New York Athletic Club (NYAC), and served for fifty years, from 1885-1935, mentoring several world record holders and Olympians. He was equally adept coaching water polo at NYAC, and led his teams to national titles, and a 1904 St ...
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.
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 ...
Huffman, who previously swam the English Channel and the 20 Bridges Swim around Manhattan Island, has now completed a swim across the Catalina Channel in California.
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
Earlier, Corson had completed the swim around Manhattan Island, a distance of 42 miles, and had also completed the swim from Albany, New York, to New York City, swimming the distance in a total of 5 days, 3 hours and 11.5 minutes. The straight-line distance between the two points is 143 miles, but Corson swam an extra 10 miles due to various ...
On 23 May 1976, swimming topless most of the way, she became the first person to swim around Hong Kong Island, accomplishing this in 17 hours, 6 minutes. The swim, in a counterclockwise direction, was sponsored by Cathay Pacific and began and ended in Repulse Bay. McGill faced difficulties including jellyfish stings, pollution, raw sewage and ...