Liz Fry, Cover Girl
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Liz Fry keeps getting better and better.
Her recent exploits at the 2015 S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge mirrored her successes from the English Channel to around Manhattan Island.
She swam 133.8 km in a 4-day stage swim – making another stamp on open water swimming history.
In 2011 at the age of 52, Fry took 24 hours 39 minutes to complete a two-way crossing of the English Channel. Incredibly, she swam 13 hours 20 minutes to France, took a very short break on the French shore, and then swam back to England in a fast 11 hour 19 minute effort.
In 2011, she was the first person to complete a double Ederle Swim, a 35-mile swim from Manhattan Island to New Jersey and back.
In 2009 at the age of 50, Fry smashed the record for swimming clockwise (“the hard way”) around Manhattan Island when she completed the course in 11 hours 41 minutes, breaking the old mark by over 6 hours.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. 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), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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