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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.
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’s record-setting swims began in the 1970s, gaining her national attention with spots on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In 1975, she broke the 45-year-old ...
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 ...
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 ...
Diana Nyad (did not graduate [101]) – world record long-distance swimmer and ranked squash player Parson Perryman [ 102 ] – professional baseball player A.J. Steigman (Business School [ 103 ] ) – chess player
Ten years later, in the wake of the independent World Open Water Swimming Assn. report released in late 2022, many of those who initially doubted the validity of Nyad’s swim have come around.
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