Tammy van Wisse
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Tammy van Wisse (born 23 July 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a long-distance swimmer from Australia. 1990 she won the Lake Zurich Swim. As a marathon swimmer she swam the Murray River in 2001, a distance of 2,438 kilometres and the English Channel in 1993 in a time of 8h 35mins and again in 1994 in a time of 8h 33mins.[1] In July 2006, van Wisse broke an 81-year-old record (held by Gertrude Jacobs Ederle) for the 35-kilometer swim from New York City to Sandy Hook,[2] and retired from competitive swimming the same year to start a family, 20 years after her first marathon swim.[3] She now works as an environmentalist[4] and a motivational speaker.
References
- ↑ Dover Life - Successful Crossings 1994
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- Australian female swimmers
- Female long-distance swimmers
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- Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
- Australian people of Dutch descent
- Swimmers from Melbourne
- English Channel swimmers
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen