Ritu Kedia Returns To The Sport After 8 Years
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ritu Kedia is an open water swimmer, a chemical engineer and entrepreneur from India who successfully completed 4 marathon swims and 2 Oceans Seven channels within a span of 26 days when Kedia was 18 years old in 2007.
She crossed the Strait of Gibraltar on July 17th in 3 hours 59 minutes, finished third in the 26 km International Championship of Toroneous Gulf on July 20th in 9 hours 51 minutes, completed the 26.4 km International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Schwimmen on August 5th, and a crossing of the English Channel in 15 hours 50 minutes on August 11th.
Years went by and Kedia is now back in the game after finishing her schooling and venturing out into the entrepreneurial world.
She is currently planning her 3 Swim Challenge for Rotary’s End Polio Now Campaign and a crossing of the Palk Strait from Sri Lanka to India…once again with her supportive family and coach.
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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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