Frosted Triple Crown
noun - The Frosted Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming (or FTC) is a term for individuals who complete both the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming and an Ice Mile, demonstrating both endurance in swimming marathon distances and extreme cold water swimming.
Members as of February 2023
1. Craig Lenning (USA) - FTC achieved on 10 July 2011
2. Elaine Kornbau Howley (USA) - FTC achieved on 8 December 2012
3. Ned Denison (Ireland) - FTC achieved on 10 February 2013
4. Gordon Gridley (USA) - FTC achieved on 14 June 2014
5. Ciaran Byrne (Ireland) - FTC achieved on 18 July 2014
6. Colleen Blair (Scotland) - FTC achieved on 7 February 2015
7. Jaimie Monahan (USA) - FTC achieved on 20 March 2015
8. Helen Beveridge (Scotland) - FTC achieved on 16 June 2015
9. Sarah Thomas (USA) - FTC achieved on 21 November 2015
10. Tracy Clark (New Zealand) - FTC achieved on 15 August 2016
11. Matthias Kaßner (Germany) - FTC achieved on 27 January 2017
12. Boguslaw Ogrodnik (Poland) - FTC achieved on 23 July 2017
13. Ion Lazarenco Tiron (Republic of Moldova) - FTC achieved on 8 September 2017
14. Ranie Pearce (USA) - FTC achieved on 28 January 2018
15. Graeme Lowe (UK) - FTC achieved on 3 February 2018
16. Paula Yankauskas (USA) - FTC achieved on 5 September 2018
17. Paul Eugen Dorin Georgescu (Romania) - FTC achieved on 4 February 2019
18. Anna-Carin Nordin (Sweden) - FTC achieved on 1 June 2019
19. Benjamin Freeman (Australia) - FTC achieved on 2 June 2019
20. Jim Loreto (USA) - FTC achieved on 24 January 2020
21. Simon Olliver (New Zealand) - FTC achieved on 2 August 2020
22. Bárbara Hernández Huerta (Chile) - FTC achieved on 30 September 2020
23. Marcia Cleveland (USA) - FTC achieved on 6 December 2020
24. Melissa Kegler (USA) - FTC achieved on 6 December 2020
25. Jessi Harewicz (Canada) - FTC achieved on 18 December 2020
26. Martin McMahon (USA) - FTC achieved on 10 August 2021
27. Qing Li (USA) - FTC achieved on 5 December 2021
28. Lynton Mortensen (Australia) - FTC achieved on 5 May 2022
29. Kate Steels (UK) - FTC achieved on 1 August 2022
30. Fergal Madden (Ireland) - FTC achieved on 26 August 2022
31. Melanie Tyrrell (UK) - FTC achieved on 11 August 2022
32. Nikki Pope (UK) - FTC achieved on 9 September 2022
33. Rosie Foley (Ireland) - FTC achieved on 23 September 2022
34. Ger Devin (Ireland) - FTC achieved on 14 October 2022
35. Elizabeth Almond (USA) - FTC achieved on 3 December 2022
36. Melanie Holland (UK) - FTC achieved on 28 January 2023
37. Vera Rivard (USA) - FTC achieved on 19 February 2023
Origin
Originally conceived by Gordon Gridley in June 2014.
External links
- Kate Steels Pioneers Her Second Circumnavigation Swim in Mexico
- Colleen Blair, MBE To Be Inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
- Boguslaw Ogrodnik Is Extreme Many Times Over
- Matthias Kaßner Describes His Open Water Journey On WOWSA Live
- If We Can, You Can
- Paul Georgescu Achieves Frosted Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming
- Jim Loreto Does Frosted Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming
- Frosted Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming
- Ice Mile swimmers
- Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Colleen Blair Honored With the MSF Yudovin Award
- Ion Lazarenco Tiron, Swimming For Peace
- Ion Lazarenco Tiron Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
