Mercedes Gleitze: The Spirit of a New Age To Air
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doloranda Pember reported that the documentary entitled Mercedes Gleitze: The Spirit of a New Age, produced by Clare Delargy of Delargy Productions of Northern Ireland, will be broadcast later this year on Foxtel’s Bio Channel (Biography Channel). It will first be shown in Australia and New Zealand.
The documentary contains previously unseen footage of Gleitze taken during her swimming career, and interviews with Montserrat Tresserras Dou, Olympian Duncan Goodhew, Dr. Helen Pankhurst, great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, and Harvard historian Dr. Marilyn Morgan.
The film also features two eyewitnesses, one of whom witnessed Gleitze’s unprecedented swim across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Photo by Ram Barkai shows daughter Doloranda Pember and a photo of her mother Mercedes Gleitze above at the International Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on the Isle of Bute, Scotland.
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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.
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