Juan Gabriel Acosta

Juan Gabriel Acosta is an open water swimmer and winter swimmer from Barrancabermeja, Colombia

Open Water Swimming Highlights

He finished 5th in the 50m freestyle at the 2019 Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont.
On 2 September 2022, he swam 32.3 km across the Catalina Channel from Doctors Cove on Santa Catalina Island to Sacred Cove on Palos Verdes Peninsula on the Southern California mainland in 9 hours 54 minutes 51 seconds to become the second person from Colombia to swim the Catalina Channel. He was supported by Isabella Jaramillo and Gallarcher Heart-Callan with escort kayakers Barb Schumacher and Robin Hipolito, and Cammie Goodell and Marc Horowitz as CCSF observers.
Strait of Gibraltar in 2014 3 hours 56 minutes
Atlantic City in 2019 9 hours 39 minutes
Lake Ontario in 2021 18 hours 58 minutes