Sunday, 8. April 2007
Topic: SPORT - on April 8, 2007 at 11:21:00 AM CEST
For the record Slovenian man ends 65-day swim down Amazon River
After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance -- something he's already done three times before.
After nine weeks, Martin Strel arrived near the city of Belem, the capital of the jungle state of Para, ending a swim almost as long as the drive from Miami to Seattle. Strel averaged about 50 miles a day since beginning his odyssey at the source of the world's second-longest river in Peru on Feb. 1.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com amazonswim.comMartin Strel [Wikipedia]
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