At the 1991
FINA World Championships
25 km
marathon swim
held in
Perth, Australia, eyes of the media and fans were on the Australian and American teams. Aussie Shelley Taylor-Smith outlasted and outswam Americans Martha Jahn and Karen Burton on the women's side, while American Chad Hundeby beat
Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Taranath Narayan Shenoy is deaf from birth and legally blind in his right eye. Growing up in Mumbai, India, he described a perfect storm of events that eventually found him inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in 1986. His story is fascinating and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Taranath Narayan Shenoy is deaf and dumb, but his courage and will power has been clear throughout his career of three English Channel crossings, a Catalina Channel crossing, a Strait of Gibraltar crossing, and a Cook Strait crossing as well as two circumnavigation swims around Manhattan Island and the Palk
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in the English Channel swimming history in 1985, Suzanne Heim-Bowen did a 10 hour 11 minute crossing. 17 people successfully crossed the English Channel that year including some speedy crossings by Philip Rush who did a two-way crossing in 17 hours 56 minutes, Paul Asmuth who did two separate crossings
