Barbara Pellick
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Barbara Pellick is a member of the Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2020/2021
Men's team and women's team, including Steve Junk, Mark Cockroft, Dougal Hunt, Chris Palfrey, Stephen Spence, Julie Bradshaw, Michelle Macy, Barbara Pellick, Penny Palfrey, Lucy Roper, and Heather Osborn on Lake Taupo for the Taupo x 3 world record setting relay
Barbara Pellick is a marathon swimmer from Pinjarra in Western Australia who achieved the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming.
Open Swimming Career Highlights
- She is a veteran of over 20 years of marathon swimming.
- She completed a 12 hour 23 minute solo 33.5 km English Channel crossing.
- She participated on a successful three-way English Channel relay.
- She finished fourth in 8 hours 15 minutes in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim.
- She completed a 32.3 km Catalina Channel crossing on 11 August 2013 in 11 hours 19 minutes.
- She participated in an unprecedented non-stop 6-person 120 km Lake Taupo three-way relay crossing (Taupo x 3 in 2009)
- She completed 26 (and counting) solo 19.7 km Rottnest Channel Swims including a training swim of 5 hours 35 minutes on 21 March 2015
- She completed first non-stop double crossing of the Rottnest Channel, completed in 1994 in 12 hours 6 minutes 12 seconds.
- She completed numerous other ocean swims including helping prepare Jennifer Hurley for her Halls Head Island circumnavigation.
- She completed the first female double crossing of the 19.7 km Rottnest Channel Swim in western Australia in 1994 in 12:06:12
- She completed the greatest number of 19.7 km Rottnest Channel Swims by a female in western Australia at 29 as of 2018.
- She was a member of the Taupo x 3 relay, a three-way crossing of Lake Taupo by a 6-person male team and a 6-person female team of experienced open water swimmers in January 2009. The Taupo x 3 relay teams set a world lake swimming record by completing a 126 km (78.2 miles) triple-crossing of Lake Taupo, the largest lake in New Zealand under organisers Chris Palfrey, Penny Palfrey, and Julie Bradshaw. The swim started at 5:33 am on 5 January 2009. The men's relay team finished in 33 hours 31 minutes 15 seconds and included Steve Junk (Australia), Mark Cockroft (New Zealand), Dougal Hunt (Australia), Chris Palfrey (Australia), and Stephen Spence (Australia) with New Zealand legend Philip Rush as the escort pilot. The women’s relay team finished in 33 hours 33 minutes 45 seconds and included Julie Bradshaw (England), Michelle Macy (USA), Barbara Pellick (Australia), Penny Palfrey (Australia), Lucy Roper (England), and Heather Osborn (New Zealand).
- She completed 30 solo crossings of the 19.7 km Rottnest Channel in Western Australia during her career to date, a record for females.
Life Members of the Rottnest Channel Swim Association
She is a Life Member of the Rottnest Channel Swim for meritorious service made by members or committee members, that has been awarded to the following individuals:
• John Whitehead
• Peter Tanham
• Kevin Holtom
• Lesley Meaney
• John Guilfoyle
• David Craig
• Richard Verboon
• Shelley Hatton
• Les Stewart
• Barbara Pellick
• David Corney
External links
- Australian Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class Of 2020/2021
- Solo Records of the Rottnest Channel Swim Association
- Life Members of the Rottnest Channel Swim Association
- Saturday, February 23rd: The 2019 Rottnest Channel Swim
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Marathon Swimming
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- Open Water Swimming
- Rottnest Channel Swim Association
- Life-Membership-RCSA.pdf Life Membership RCSA
- Barbara Pellick Endurance Swimmer
- Making The Cut Around Halls Head
- World Record Relay In Lake Taupo
- NYC Swim bio
- Barbara Pellick, 20 Years In The Making Of A Heroine
- Barbara Pellick Looks Back And Looks Forward
- Barbara Pellick Facebook page
- Record-setting Relays Rock 'N Roll
- Remembering The 2010 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim
- Rottnest Channel Swim Association - Solo Records
- Solo Records of the Rottnest Channel Swim Association
