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1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) Website. www.martinstrel.com. Martin Strel (listen ⓘ; born 1 October 1954), is a Slovenian long-distance swimmer, one of the most elite endurance athletes [1] best known for swimming the entire length of various rivers. Strel holds successive Guinness World Records for swimming the Danube river, the Mississippi River, the ...
1500 m freestyle. Veljko Rogošić (21 July 1941 – 7 August 2012) was a Croatian long-distance swimmer who competed at the Olympics for SFR Yugoslavia and won numerous awards from the start of his swimming career in 1959. [1][2] Rogošić also holds the world record for longest distance ever swum in open ocean without flippers.
Long-distance swimming is distinguished from ordinary swimming in that the distances involved are longer than are typically swum in pool competitions. When a given swim calls more on endurance than on outright speed, it is the more likely to be considered a long-distance swim. Long-distance swims, however, may take place in pools, such as the ...
The world records in swimming are ratified by World Aquatics (formerly known as FINA), the international governing body of swimming. Records can be set in long course (50 metres) or short course (25 metres) swimming pools. World Aquatics recognizes world records in the following events for both men and women, [1] [2] except for the mixed relays ...
Of the 35 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold fifteen records, Australia five, France four, China, Canada and South Africa two each, and one each to Ireland, Great Britain, Russian Olympic Committee, Hungary, and Sweden. Nineteen of the current Olympic records were set at the 2024 Summer Olympics, seven in 2020, five in 2016 ...
Registered in Guinness Book of Records on 5 October 2019 for the longest non-stop and unassisted marathon swim, lasting 76 hours and 30 minutes. Nejib Belhedi (Arabic: نجيب بلهادي; born 25 July, 1952) is a Tunisian Marathon Icy and Iron open-water swimmer.
June 3, 1967 (age 57) France. Education. B.B.A. Marketing '95 The University of Texas at San Antonio [1] Known for. Endurance swimming. Website. www.thelongestswim.com. Benoit Lecomte (born 1967) is a French-born long-distance swimmer (now a naturalized American citizen) who swam several sections of the Atlantic Ocean in 1998.
Ross Edgley (born 13 October 1985) is a British athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author. He holds multiple world records, but is perhaps most recognised for completing the World's Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018, [3] when he became the first person in history to swim 1,780 miles (2,860 km) [4] around Great Britain, in 157 days [4] (voted Performance of the Year by the World Open Water ...