KEY
SWIMS FROM 1971
In 1971 at age 14 Lynne swam across the Catalina
Channel with a group
of teenagers from Seal Beach, California .
They swam a distance of
27 miles in 12 hours and 36 minutes.
In 1972 at age 15 Lynne swam across the English
Channel and shattered
the men's and women's world records
with a time of 9 hours
and 57 minutes.
In 1973 at age 16 Lynne returned to England and broke
the men's
world record for the English Channel
a second time with a
time of 9 hours and 36 minutes.
In 1974 at age 17 Lynne returned to the Catalina
Channel and broke the men's and women's world records
with a time of 8 hours and 48 minutes.
In 1975 Lynne became the first woman to swim across Cook
Strait between
the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
Her time was 12 hour and
2 1/2 minutes.
In 1976 Lynne broke the men's and women's world record
for swimming the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden
with a time
of 5 hours and 9 minutes. And she broke the men's and women's record
that same year
for swimming
across the Kattegut between
Norway to Sweden in a time of 6 hours and 16 minutes.
In 1976 Lynne
became the first person to swim across the 42 degree F waters of the Strait of Magellan with a time of
1 hour 2 minutes.
In 1977 Lynne became the first person to swim between
three of the Aleutian Islands.
In 1977 Lynne became the first person to swim 8 miles around the Cape
of Good Hope in a time of 3 hoiurs and 3
minutes.
In 1980 Lynne was invited to speak at Tokyo Medical College
and to participate in a swim around Joga Shima Island.
In
1983 Lynne swam across the three Lakes of New
Zealand's Southern Alps.
In 1984 Lynne swam across twelve major waterways across in the United
States.
In 1985 Lynne swam "Around the World
in 80 Days" by swimming
12 extremely challenging waterways some that had never been attempted.
In
1987 Lynne became the first person to swim across the Bering
Strait as a way to open the US-Soviet Border
for
the first time in 48 years with a time of 2 hours
and 6 minutes.
In 1988 Lynne became the first person to
swim across Lake
Baikal and
had a cape in Russia named after her.
In 1990 Lynne swam across the Beagle
Channel between Argentine and Chile as a way to promote
cooperation
between the two countries. She became the first person
in the world to complete this swim.
In 1990 Lynne swam across the Spree
River between the newly united
German Republics.
In 1992 Lynne became the first person to swim across Lake
Titicaca from Bolivia to Peru.
In 1994 Lynne swam
through the Gulf
of Aqaba from Egypt to Israel
and from Israel to Jordan
tracing
the progress of peace between the
three countries.
In 2002 Lynne became the first person to complete a
1.2 miles in Antarctica,
from the ship the Orlova to Neko Harbor in a time of 25 minutes.
Lynne was inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000.
For
more information please take a look at the Swimming Hall of Fame website.
