Tammy van Wisse

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Tammy van Wisse
Personal information
Born (1968-07-23) July 23, 1968 (age 56)
Melbourne, Australia
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Long-distance swimming, marathon swimming

Tammy van Wisse (born 23 July 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a long-distance swimmer from Australia. In 1990, she won the Lake Zurich Swim. As a marathon swimmer, she swam the Murray River in 2001, a distance of 2,438 kilometres. She also swam the English Channel in 1993 in a time of 8 hours 35 minutes, and again in 1994 in a time of 8 hours 33 minutes. [1] In July 2006, van Wisse broke an 81-year-old record (held by Gertrude Jacobs Ederle) for the 35-kilometre swim from New York City to Sandy Hook, [2] and retired from competitive swimming the same year to start a family, twenty years after her first marathon swim. [3] She now works as an environmentalist [4] and a motivational speaker.

References

  1. ↑ Dover Life - Successful Crossings 1994
  2. ↑ "Swimmer Tammy van Wisse breaks record". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 July 2006. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
  3. ↑ "Tammy van Wisse retiring to have babies". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 September 2006. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
  4. ↑ "New campaign urges Aussies to save water". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 October 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2009.


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