New Delhi, January 19, 2018: Her journey as swimmer started at the age of five, when she was admitted to a swimming training school. In her first national competition, at age nine, she dominated her age group by winning six gold medals in six events. She continued to improve, winning various junior and national championships, as well as six gold medals at the 1991 South Asian Federation Games . She started long-distance swimming in 1989 and crossed the English Channel that year. She won the 81-km (50-mile) Murshidabad Long Distance Swim in 1996 and in 1999 she crossed the English Channel again. In 2005 she became the first woman to have swum across sea channels off five continents—including the Strait of Gibraltar, the Tyrrhenian Sea, Cook Strait, Toroneos Gulf (Gulf of
Kassándra) in Greece, the Catalina Channel off the California coast, and from Three Anchor Bay to Robben Island near Cape Town, South Africa).
Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire)
