Scott Lautman

Beagle Channel and the Strait of Magellan crossed by Ryan Stramrood (South Africa), Kieron Palframan (South Africa), Toks Viviers (South Africa), Andrew Chin (South Africa), Pedro Ordenes (Chile), Randy Perkins (USA), Rachel Golub (USA), Cristian Vergara (USA/Chile), Scott Lautman (USA), Mark Lautman (USA) [wetsuit], Rafal Ziobro (Poland), and Gustavo Oriozabala (Argentina)

Scott Mathew Lautman is a 67-year-old American open water swimmer from Seattle, Washington. He was a USA Olympic Swimming trials finalist in the 1972 200m butterfly.

Open Water Swimming Highlights

• He finished 9th overall in the 1000m freestyle at the 13th Winter Swimming World Championships in Lake Bled, Slovenia on 24 January 2023.
• He represented the USA at the IISA 5th World Championship in Samoëns, France between 11-15 January 2023.
• He is a member of the Half Century Club due to his swim across the Strait of Gibraltar at the age of 51 from Cires Point in 4 hours 16 minutes on 3 September 2003.
• He crossed his second Oceans Seven channel when he crossed the Catalina Channel in 12 hours on 26 June 2013.
• On 21 January2009, he crossed the Strait of Magellan, together with Rachel Golub, Cristian Vergara, and brother Mark Lautman at the age of 55 in 1 hour 18 minutes.
• He placed in the top 5 in the 60-64 age group in the 14th FINA World Masters Championships 3 km race in Riccione, Italy on 17 June 2012.
• He was one of the top male swimmers in the 10 km race in the 2012 Swim Across America Long Beach event on 23 September 2012.
• He achieved the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming at the age of 60 years 7 months with a crossing of the Catalina Channel in 2013:
  • Catalina Channel crossing (CM) in a tandem swim with Marcy MacDonald on 25 June 2013 in 12 hours 9 minutes
    
  • Manhattan Island Marathon Swim on 17 June 2000 in 8 hours 36 minutes
    
  • English Channel in 4 September 2000 in 10 hours 37 minutes
    
• He participated in the unprecedented 2013 Bering Strait Swim Relay that completed a 86 km relay crossing from Russia to Alaska.
• He serves as the Chief Safety Officer of the Northwest Open Water Swimming Association and is a regular swimmers of the Notorious Alki Swimmers.
• He competed in the Ice Kilometer at the 3rd International Ice Swimming Association World Championship held in Murmansk, Russia in March 2019.
• He won the 65-69 year category on the 2018-2019 International Winter Swimming Association World Cup series that included the 10th Jelgavas Roņi Cup, the Bled Winter Swimming World Cup, the Skellefteå Dark & Cold, and the Petrozavodsk Russian Open Championships.
• He participated in The Silver Seals, a group of open water swimmers over the age of 60 who pioneered a 16.7 km (10.4-mile) course in the Salish Sea on 25 July 2021 in 4 hours 24 minutes 43 seconds from Bremerton to Alki Point in West Seattle, Washington. Its members included 66-year-old Guila Muir, 75-year-old escort pilot Martin Adams, filmmaker Bethanie Mitchell, 68-year-old Scott Lautman, 64-year-old Rachel Price, 69-year-old Greg Rolnick, 61-year-old Michael Palmer, 62-year-old Zena Courtney, and observer Stephanie Zimmerman.

Bering Strait Swim

Lautman was a member of the successful, unprecedented, 5-day Bering Strait Swim relay, a 53-mile (86 km) relay crossing from Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka, Russia, to Cape Prince of Wales in the state of Alaska, USA.

1. Yuri Tsiganchuk, Blagoveshchensk, Russia
2. Yuri Myagkikh, Russia
3. Vladimir Chegorin, Russia
4. Maria Chizhova, Novosibirsk, Russia
5. Elena Guseva, Russia
6. Kieron Palframan, Cape Town, South Africa
7. Ram Barkai, Cape Town, South Africa
8. Jack Bright, UK
9. Vladimir Litvinov, Blagoveshchensk, Russia
10. Oksana Veklich, Blagoveshchensk, Russia
11. Aleksandr Jakovlev, Jelgava, Latvia
12. Matías Ola, Buenos Aires /Tucuman Argentina
13. Henri Kaarma, Tallinn, Estonia
14. Toomas Haggi, Tallinn, Estonia
15. Nuala Moore, Ireland
16. Anne Marie Ward, Donegal, Ireland
17. Claudia Rose, San Diego, USA
18. Toks Viviers, Cape Town, South Africa
19. Melissa O’Reilly (‘Mo’), Lambertville, New Jersey, USA
20. Ryan Stramrood, Cape Town, South Africa
21. Scott Lautman, Seattle, Washington, USA
22. Cristian Vergara, Santiago, Chile
23. Lelané Rossouw-Bancroft, Newark, Delaware, USA
24. Rafał Ziobro, Krakow, Poland
25. Andrew Chin, Cape Town, South Africa
26. Jackie Cobell, Tunbridge Wells, UK
27. Paul Duffield, West Kelowna, BC, Canada

Catalina Channel Half Century Club

1. Jim Clifford (USA), 62 years 11 months, CM in 9:49 on 28 September 2014
2. Bob West (USA), 62, CM in 15:49 in 1998
3. Gary Greenwood (USA), 62, CM in 13:08 in 2004
4. Pat Gallant-Charette (USA), 60, CM in 14:11 in 2011
5. Mo Siegel (USA), 60, CM in 13:08 in 2011
6. Scott Lautman (USA), 60 CM in 12:09 in 2013
7. Bob Needham (USA), 58, CM in 13:10 in 2011
8. Tom Hecker (USA), 57, CM in 10:45 in 2009
9. Richard Knepper (USA), 56, MC in 11:56 in 2005
10. Barbara Held (USA), 56, CM in 9:36 in 2010
11. Mark Smitherman (USA), 56, CM in 11:52 in 2014
12. Carol Sing (USA), 55, CM in 10:38 in 1997
13. Bill Hoehn (USA), 55, CM in 12:57 in 2005
14. Kevin Murphy (Great Britain), 54, CM in 15:23 in 2003
15. Roger Finch (South Africa), 54, CM in 9:45:02 in 2012
16. Dave Van Mouwerik (USA), 54,, CM in 12:09:07 in 2012
17. Ned Denison (Ireland), 54, CM 8:50:04 in 2012
18. Peter Tanham (Australia), 54, CM in 10:07 in 2014
19. Anthony McCarley (USA), 54, CM in 13:00.3 in 2014
20. Nick Almos-Lau (Mexico), 53, CM in 12:40 in 1999
21. James Fitzpatrick (USA), 53, CM in 14:59 in 2008 (to Newport Beach)
22. Jim McConica (USA), 53, CM in 10:19 in 2004
23. Douglas McConnell (USA), 53, CM in 12:41:13 in 2012
24. David Cooper (USA), 52, CM in 13:19 in 2005
25. Dan Richards (USA), 52, CM in 10:10 2008
26. Chris Burke (USA), 52, CM in 11:22 in 2014
27. Alan Bell (USA), 51, CM in 9:28 in 2001
28. Chris Palfrey (Australia), 51, CM in 10:30 in 2009
29. Lynn Kubasek (USA), 51, CM in 15:53 in 2009
30. Daniel Robinson (USA), 51, CM in 9:57 in 2008
31. Ron Collins (USA), 51, CM in 10:05 on 10 September 2013
32. Antonio Argüelles (Mexico), 50, CM in 10:25 in 2009
33. William Newbern (USA), 50, CM in 12:48 in 2005
34. Ray Meltvedt (USA), 50, CM in 15:25 in 2010
35. Suzie Dods (USA), 50, MC in 18:36 in 2010
36. Dale Petranech (USA), 50, CM in 13:28 in 1985
37. John Hill (USA), 50, CM in 19:15 in 1985
38. Frank Reynolds (USA), 50, CM in 10:34 in 1987
39. Jim Barber (USA), 50, CM in 8:43 in 2010
40. Sue Free (USA), 50, CM in 11:23 in 2012
41. Bridgette Hobart Janeczko (USA), 50, CM 11:27:16 in 2012
42. Hendrik Meerman (USA), CM, 50, 12:48:30 in 2012
43. Scott Tapley (USA), MC, 50, 17:43:12 in 2014

External links

• Team America Gearing Up For The IISA 5th World Championship
• The History of Swimming 4 Long Days In SCAR
• Bethanie Mitchell, A Written-Audio-Visual Open Water Artist
• The Silver Seals of the Salish Sea
• Finishing Strongly In The Second Half Of Life
• Catalina Channel Swimming Federation
• Strait of Gibraltar Swimming
• 2012 FINA World Masters Championships
• 2018-2019 Winter Swimming World Cup Champions
• International Winter Swimming Association
• International Winter Swimming Association World Cup overall results
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Open Water Swimming
• Swim Across America Long Beach
• Joy And Exultation of Open Water Swimming
• Photos of Swim Across America Long Beach event
• Insta-Bros Is How It Goes
• Marine Stadium
• Rare Crossing Of The Strait Of Magellan
• Conquistador Sails Strait Like Magellan
• Self-serve Station At USMS Championships In Las Vegas
• What Open Water Swim Could Be More Dangerous?
• Bering Strait Swim Succeeds
• Where Women Dominate
• Tandem Swim Completes Triple Crown For Veterans
• NOWSA Promotes Swimming In The Pacific Northwest
• Getting Steve Walker To Smile After The Drop
• Marcy MacDonald One-Arms It To France