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Neil held three Maltese records each in the 400, 800, and 1500 m freestyle until one of them was broken by Edward Caruana Dingli in 2011. [1]On 30 June 2021 Agius might have established the new world record for the longest continuous unassisted open water swim - swimming 125.7 km from Linosa to Xlendi - to the Mediterranean archipelago of Gozo, Malta.
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, where teams consist of two men and two women, in any order. Freestyle: 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m; Backstroke: 50m, 100m, 200m
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 ...
Extreme adventurer Ross Edgley has broken the record for the longest ever open water swim in Loch Ness.
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 ...
Her 104.6 miles (168.3 km) swim was the first current-neutral open water swim of over 100 miles, and as of 2021 the world record for longest unassisted open-water swim. Her swim began on August 7, 2017 at Rouses Point, New York at the north of the lake and took a loop to and around Gardiner Island, Addison County, Vermont before ending at ...
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[1] [2] Rogošić also holds the world record for longest distance ever swum in open ocean without flippers. He swam a total of 225 km (139.8 miles) across the Adriatic Sea in a time of 50 hours and 10 minutes from Grado to Riccione in Italy on 29-31 August 2006, [ 3 ] setting the Guinness World Record.