Eden Elgeti was never a competitive swimmer, but she learned how to swim with her grandfather as a child. She recently joined the open water swimming community.

The 26-year-old British transgender swimmer explained her journey venturing offshore with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on today’s WOWSA Live.

* looking forward to her first 10 km open water swim at the Jubilee 10K
* looking to swim Alcatraz Island and try ice swimming
* stopping saunas and switching to river swimming in Reading
* easing into the open water swimming community due to the ease of starting the sport and making friends
* training with the Royal Docks, the Hampstead Heath and Serpentine in London

For more information about Elgeti, visit @thetransgenderswimmer.

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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010).

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