Peter Tanham Travels World To Accomplish Triple Crown
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Among the many achievements Peter Tanham has done is the first two-way crossing by a man across the Rottnest Channel in 1991 (14 hours 8 minutes) and the greatest number of Rottnest Channel Swims (30).
But the 55-year-old accountant from Perth – who can easily described as fit and fast – traveled the world to accomplish the first Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming by a Western Australian male.*
He first traveled 14,470 km from Perth to London and then went to Dover and swam across to France to complete his English Channel crossing in 2005 in 9 hours 4 minutes.
He then traveled 15,015 km from Perth to Los Angeles and then boated over to Palos Verdes and swam from Santa Catalina Island to complete his Catalina Channel swim in 2014 in 10 hours 7 minutes [see video below].
He then finally traveled 18,690 km from Perth to New York and then went to Manhattan on August 1st to complete his Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 2015 in 7 hours 35 minutes.
* Barbara Pellick, Ceinwen Roberts and Lisa Delaurentis are other Western Australians who have achieved the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming.
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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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