Anna-Carin
Nordin is a 41-year-old Swedish English Channel swimmer who successfully swam
two marathon swims in two completely different parts of the world.
Following her passion, her summer season started with a 41K cold-water
marathon swim between Sweden and Finland in 14 hours 51 minutes.
It
culminated with an equally tough 42K
Angela Maurer is
back again and seemingly gets better year by year despite being twice as old as
some of her elite competitors.
The 36-year-old mother of one child, she
has a perspective on life that is cool-headed, calm and composed – which all
serve her very well in the chaotic cacophony of competition.
She not only
qualified for
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Elizabeth Fry is a 52-year-old financial services consultant who could not just swim things once in 2011.
She first set the double crossing record in the 35-mile Ederle Swim from Manhattan Island to New Jersey – and back – in June.
Finishing in 11 hours 5 minutes, she set the
Pamela
Dickson is a
56-year-old grandmother of ten who became the oldest person to swim 40.2K
across Lake Taupo, the biggest lake in New Zealand, in 13 hours 56
minutes.
The oldest person to swim the Cook Strait dug deep and proved
that her chronological age was less important than the rhythm she has developed
for the open water despite
Ana Marcela
Cunha had
dreams of returning to the Olympics after she finished fifth in the Olympic 10K
Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The 16-year-old was only 5
seconds outside the bronze medal in the 2-hour race.
But she missed out
on her second Olympics by a mere 4 seconds at the 2011 World Championships in
Shanghai.<br
The North (Irish) Channel is renowned for being the toughest channel swim in the world - cold, rough, filled with jellyfish and fraught with unpredictable weather. But it was site to the tenacious efforts of one Irish women who never quit until she reached the other side.Anne Marie Ward, an unlikely endurance heroine, joined one of the most elite and
Among an extraordinarily impressive field of outstanding open water swimming heroines, Poliana Okimoto was voted as the 2009 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year out of 21,275 votes cast by fans around the globe. Poliana graciously said, "Thanks very much. I'm very happy for this!" "I'm very happy to win this voting. This year was very special for
