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Kurt Dickson
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Kurt Dickson is a 55-year-old American pool and open water swimmer from Kansas.
Open Water Swimming Career
- On 12 August 2006, he completed the 10 km Horsetooth Marathon Swim in 2 hours 25 minutes 29 seconds at the age of 39 years
- On 7 August 2011, he completed the 10 km Horsetooth Marathon Swim in 2 hours 19 minutes 42 seconds at the age of 44 years. 1st overall male.
- On 19 August 2012, he completed the 10 km Horsetooth Marathon Swim in 2 hours 11 minutes 16 seconds at the age of 45 years. 1st overall male.
- In 2012, he was the fastest swimmer of the 4 individual swims of the inaugural SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona.
- On 18 August 2013, he completed the 10 km Lake Mead in 2 hours 15 minutes 5 seconds at the age of 45 years.
- On 18 August 2013, he completed the 10 km Horsetooth Marathon Swim in 2 hours 20 minutes at the age of 46 years. 1st overall.
- On 10 August 2014, he completed the 10 km Horsetooth Marathon Swim in 2 hours 23 minutes 54 seconds at the age of 47 years. 2nd overall.
- On 13 June 2015, he completed the 10 km Lake Del Valle in 2 hours 26 minutes 44 seconds at the age of 47 years.
- On 12 July 2015, he completed the 17 km Portland Bridge Swim in 3 hours 52 minutes 47 seconds at the age of 47 years.
- On 4 June 2016, he completed the 10 km Great Salt Lake Marathon Swim in 2 hours 44 minutes 22 seconds at the age of 48 years. 1st overall.
- On 16 July 2016, he completed the 10 km Bear Lake Monster Swim in 2 hours 34 minutes 7 seconds at the age of 48 years.
- On 6 August 2016, he completed the 16 km Deer Creek Marathon Swim in 4 hours 7 minutes 46 seconds at the age of 48 years. 1st overall.
- On 4 June 2017, he completed the 14.8 km Chattanooga Swim Fest in 2 hours 8 minutes 19 seconds at the age of 49 years.
- On 25 June 2017, he completed the 45.9 km 20 Bridges Manhattan Swim in 7 hours 26 minutes 40 seconds at the age of 49 years.
- On 29 September 2017, he completed the 33.5 km English Channel in 10 hours 23 minutes at the age of 50 (Eurotunnel award for fastest CSPF crossing)
- He finished 2nd in the Overall Skins Grand Slam at the 2020 Open Water Virtual Grand Slam
- On July 8, 2018 17k Portland Bridges swim 4:11.39 4th/73
- On July 14, 2018 10k Applegate 2:15 2nd overall (93 total).
- On July 13, 2019 11k Bear Lake crossing 2nd overall.
- On July 18, 2020 11k Bear Lake crossing 1st overall.
- On August 15, 2020 10K Deer Creek, Utah 1st overall.
- On October 11 2020 Big Tortuga Lake Conroe (Houston) 10k 1st Male, 2nd overall.
- On 8 September 2021, he completed a 32.3 km crossing of the Santa Catalina Channel from Santa Catalina Channel to the Southern California mainland in 9 hours 5 minutes 32 seconds to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming Fastest crossing of 2021.
External links
- The History of Swimming 4 Long Days In SCAR
- Crossings Continue In The Catalina Channel
- Open Water Swimming
- Catalina Channel Swimming Federation
- Cargo Clogs Catalina Creating Chaos - But Catalina Channel Crossings Continue
- Krista Belanger, Eric Nilsson Win 2020 Skins Open Water Virtual Grand Slam
- Open Water Virtual Grand Slam
- Open Water Swimming
- Milo McCourt And The WOWSA Distance Challenge 100k Extreme Challenge
- Marathon Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- U.S. Masters Swimming bio
- Self-serve Station At USMS Championships In Las Vegas
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Utah Triple Crown Record holder
- Kurt Dickson Marathon Swimming data
- Benjamin Freeman Swims Swiftly Around Manhattan
- New York Open Water
- SCAR Swim Challenge
- As Night Falls, So Does Men's Record. Jamie Ann Phillips Leads Way With Stefan Reinke
- Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation Award Winners for 2017 Season
