Deanne Draeger

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Deanne Drager at the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame accepting the Honour Pioneer Swimmer award on behalf of Rose Pitonof, together with Dale Petranech and Ned Denison in Cork, Ireland

URBANSWIM in New York City

Deanne Draeger is the founder of Urban Swim in New York City.

Event Management

She completed the first 23.7 km Rose Pitonof Swim in 8 hours 10 minutes in August 2010.
She founded the 17-mile Rose Pitonof Swim from Manhattan Island to Coney Island in New York, replicating the swim of Rose Pitonof in 2010. Rose Pitonof was a 17-year-old endurance swimmer from Dorchester, Massachusetts who swam 17 miles from East 26th Street, Manhattan Island to Steeplechase Pier on Coney Island on 13 August 1911.
She organized the first Rose Pitonof Swim to celebrate the Centennial of Pitonof’s historic achievement where six swimmers successfully replicated her swim on 13 August 2011, exactly 100 years after the first swim.
She organized the double circumnavigation of Manhattan Island by Spain's Christian Jongeneel in 20 hours 15 minutes on 18 September 2016, breaking the 2007 record of Skip Storch in 20 hours 56 minutes.
She organized the Quadruple Manhattan Swim, four circumnavigation swims around Manhattan Island by Jaimie Monahan in 45 hours 24 minutes on 19-20 September 2020.

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