Women cross the ‘Catalina Channel’ faster than men

Open-water ultra-distance swimming has a long history where the ‘English Channel’ (~33 km) was crossed in 1875 for the first time. Nowadays, the three most challenging open-water swims worldwide are the 21-miles (34 km) ‘English Channel Swim’, the 20.1-miles (32.2 km) ‘Catalina Channel Swim’ and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Knechtle, Beat, Rosemann, Thomas, Rüst, Christoph Alexander
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4495100/