Swimmer’s Six
Courtesy of Arik Thormahlen, Paradise Bay, Antarctica. Jaimie Monahan is ready to attempt to set a Guinness World Record for fastest person to complete six marathon swims on six continents.
After becoming the first person to pioneer the Ice Sevens Challenge, Monahan set a new, ambitious goal and started planning her marathon swims.
Her swims include a swim from Manhattan Island to Coney Island in New York, Colombia’s Tierra Bomba Island in the Caribbean, Bondi Beach to Watsons Bay in Australia, across the Malacca and Singapore Straits, across Egypt’s Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, from Lausanne to Évian-les Bains via Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Monahan will take part of the 2018 WOWSA Talks & WOWSA Awards where she will receive her 2017 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year recognition at The Olympic Club in San Francisco on November 9th – 11th.
A more detailed description of her attempt is in the New York Times article here.
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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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