Seven Stagers Continue Onto The Highlands
Seven Stagers Continue Onto The Highlands
Courtesy of Rondi Davies, Hudson River, New York Open Water. The 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim is the longest open water swim in the world, at 193 km of stage swimming in 7 stages along the Hudson River. After swimming The Islands (29.4 km on Stage 1), The Lighthouses (31.8 m on Stage 2), 21.2 km on Stage 3, the swimmers just started The Highlands (24.4 km on Stage 4 before tackling The Beast (31.8 km on Stage 5) tomorrow and finishing up with 25.2 km on Stage 6 and 29.1 km on Stage 7.
Seven Stagers John Batchelder and Andrew Wells are still in the game on Stage 4 as they continue to completing all 193 km of the world’s longest open water swimming competition.
- John Batchelder (38, Colorado)
- Hannah Borgeson (New York)
- Adrienne Groccia (New York)
- John Hughes (Connecticut)
- Ozlen Luznar (Maryland)
- Steven Spiegel (Massachusetts)
- Mary Stella (42, Pennsylvania)
- Charles van der Horst (North Carolina)
- Andrew Wells (40, UK)
- Abigail Bergman (California)
- Steve Gruenwald (58, Minnesota) 4:42:50
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