Dam Fine Tribute To Fran Crippen
Sandy Neilson reported that swimmers traveled from as far as Alaska to enjoy the American Swimming Association‘s Dam 5K in Austin, Texas where the swimmers wore FC swim caps. “The Dam 5K swimmers wore the FC caps in honor of recently fallen open water great, Fran Crippen.”
Charles Lorenz from Wisconsin won overall in 1:03:30 followed by another swimmers from Wisconsin, Robert Iglinski in 1:05:35. The top 25 swimmers included:
1. Charles Lorenz (35) 1:03:30
2. Robert Iglinski (34) 1:05:35
3. Gregory Kunkel (30) 1:14:56
4. Keith Bell (62) 1:16:02
5. Vladimir Mesarovic (43) 1:19:56
6. Elizabeth Fry (32) 1:21:03
7. Jamie Tout (57) 1:21:18
8. Joanna Cain (42) 1:21:52
9. Morris Paillet (44) 1:23:28
10. Elizabeth Guice (37) 1:26:35
11. Kelley Schall (21) 1:26:37
12. Francine Fowler (54) 1:31:16
13. Tim Kurpiewski (47) 1:32:20
14. Steven Frost (58) 1:32:30
15. Michael Ducote (40) 1:32:41
16. Sue Bornstein (56) 1:33:40
17. Nick Istre (29) 1:34:31
18. Craig Parman (54) 1:34:34
19. Alison Carey (27) 1:35:03
20. Evin Dugas (14) 1:35:37
21. Barak Benaryeh (41) 1:37:21
22. Hillary Malicki (27) 1:37:39
23. Daniel Miller (31) 1:38:40
24. Laura Fry (25) 1:39:30
25. Cathy Modaro (44) 1:41:41
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