Ocean's Seven
Ocean's Seven is a 7-part long-distance swimming challenge for swimmers and is considered the equivalent of the Seven Summits (highest peaks on every continent) for mountaineers.
The American swimming coach Steven Munatones came up with this idea to find a similar challenge for long-distance swimmers ( open water swimmers ). In contrast to the mountaineering challenge, these are “only” on five continents.
Irishman Stephen Redmond was the first to complete all seven challenges in 2012. So far there are twenty people, seven of them women, who have accomplished this feat. The straits are not distributed across all continents.
An alternative definition is swimming through a strait in all seven continents. Lynne Cox has swum across six continents and swam 25 minutes in Antarctica.
The seven routes
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| route | Start end | length |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Street | South and North Island of New Zealand | 26 km |
| North channel | Ireland and Scotland | 34 km |
| Strait of Gibraltar ( Gibraltar Swimming ) | Morocco and Spain | 14 km |
| Kaiwi Canal | Molokaʻi and Oʻahu Islands , Hawaii | 44 km |
| Tsugaru Street | Honshu and Hokkaido islands, Japan | 20 km |
| English Channel ( canal swimming ) | England and France | 34 km |
| Santa Catalina Canal | Santa Catalina Island and Los Angeles | 34 km |
List of swimmers who have completed all seven routes
| Surname | gender | date | nation | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Redmond | m | Jul 14, 2012 | Ireland | First to complete all seven routes |
| 2 | Anna-Carin Nordin | w | 8 Jul 2013 | Sweden | First wife |
| 3 | Michelle Macy | w | Jul 14, 2013 | United States | |
| 4th | Darren Miller | m | 29 Aug 2013 | United States | |
| 5 | Adam Walker | m | Aug 6, 2014 | United Kingdom | |
| 6th | Kimberley Chambers | w | Sep 2 2014 | New Zealand | |
| 7th | Antonio Argüelles | m | 3rd Aug 2017 | Mexico | |
| 8th | Ion Lazarenco-Tiron | m | Jan. 27, 2018 | Republic of Moldova | |
| 9 | Rohan Dattatrey More | m | 9 Feb 2018 | India | First Asian |
| 10 | Abhejali Bernardová | w | Feb. 24, 2018 | Czech Republic | First participant of an inland country |
| 11 | Cameron Bellamy | m | Jun 21, 2018 | South Africa | First African |
| 12 | Lynton Mortensen | m | Nov 14, 2018 | Australia | |
| 13 | Thomas "Fleppy" Pembroke | m | Dec 14, 2018 | Australia | Youngest swimmer so far, 29 years old |
| 14th | Nora Toledano Cadena | w | March 30, 2019 | Mexico | |
| 15th | Mariel Hawley Dávila | w | March 30, 2019 | Mexico | |
| 16 | André Wiersig | m | Jun 9, 2019 | Germany | First German |
| 17th | Elizabeth Fry | w | 25 Aug 2019 | United States | |
| 18th | Attila Mányoki | m | 26 Aug 2019 | Hungary | |
| 19th | Jonathan Ratcliffe | m | 10 Dec 2019 | United Kingdom | |
| 20th | Jorge Crivilles Villanueva | m | Jan. 20, 2020 | Spain |
Source:
Movies
- Swim for your life, Documentary Japan 2012
- Against the Current, Documentary Great Britain 2017
- Extreme swimmer André Wiersig and the Ocean's Seven, Documentary Germany 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen Redmond
- ↑ The routes
- ↑ LongSwims Database. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Kim Chambers is the 6th to complete the Ocean's Seven
- ↑ Oceans Seven - Openwaterpedia. Accessed March 8, 2018 .
- ^ O'Connell, Hugh: Irish swimmer completes gruelling open water challenge . In: The Journal . July 15, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
- ^ Open-ocean swimmer Adam Walker: 'Hardest swim of my life' . In: BBC News . BBC. September 11, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
- ^ Adam Skolnik: In a Swimmer's Two-Year Quest, a Final 21-Mile Challenge . In: New York Times . August 5, 2017. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
- ↑ Pune swimmer world's youngest to complete Ocean 7 Challenge ( en ) Retrieved on February 11, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/101764575/european-completes-oceans-seven-with-cook-strait-swim
- ^ Cameron Bellamy Does Oceans Seven, South African 1st . Retrieved June 22, 2018.
- ^ As the first German: Extreme swimmer André Wiersig from Paderborn masters the "Ocean's Seven". June 9, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 .
- ^ Oceans Seven Swimmers . Marathon Swimmers Federation. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ↑ Documentary about Stephen Redmond ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Documentary about Beth French's attempt by Stefan Stuckert, which was shown at Arte in early 2019. [1]
- ↑ NDR Sportclub Story [2] Summary of the attempts by André Wiersig between 2014 and 2019 (available until December 8th, 2020, 11:35 pm)
