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Vedika Bolliger
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Vedika Bolliger, a 34-year-old from Switzerland with raccoon eyes who became the first person to swim across Lake Geneva on 30-31 July 1999 in 42 hours 45 minutes
Solo swim across Lake Geneva in August 1999
Vedika Bolliger, a member of the 24-hour Club for her 42 hour 45 minute crossing of Lake Geneva, Switzerland
Vedika Bolliger of Switzerland is a vegetarian and veteran marathon swimmer from Switzerland who is a two-time member of the 24-hour club.
Open Water Swimming Career
- She made five successful crossings of the English Channel including 14 hours 45 minutes in 1990, 16 hours 0 minutes in 1996, 16 hours 29 minutes in 2001, 23 hours 20 minutes in 21 August 2002, and 22 hours 27 minutes in 2003, becoming the first Swiss Channel swimmer in 1990
- Her 1996 English Channel crossing was part of the Channel triathlon where she also did 240 km of biking and 2 running marathons that ended in Paris
- She participated in one 6-person English Channel relay in 1989
- She was awarded the Gertrude Ederle Award for most meritorious Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation swim by a woman in 2003 for her 22 hours 27 minute effort across the English Channel
- She was the first woman to swim across Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1999 from Villeneuve to the Jetée des Pâquis in Geneva before the water fountain. Her escort pilots included Gunthita Corda, Pradeepta Bürgisser and Kanti Göddertz. It took her 42 hours 45 minutes in the 21°C water to join the 24-hour Club
- She completed the International Self-Transcendence Marathon Swim a total of 16 times as a member of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team (SCMT)
- In 1997 she swam Lake Zurich both ways from Zurich to Rapperswil and back in Switzerland (56 km) in 29 hours. She swam 13 hours 30 minutes in one direction, took a 5-minute break, following by a 15 hour 25 minute back
Endurance Sports Career: Ultrarunning, Ultra-Triathlon
Her other endurance feats include the following:
- Eighteen 24-hour races between 1988 and 2009
- two 48-hour races (Cologne)
- 10 x 100 km of Biel
- Self Transcendence Race 10-Day Race New York (804.6 km in 2000)
- Zurich Ironman
- Triple Ironman in Lensahn, Germany in 2000 in 57 hours 25 minutes
External links
- Jennifer Dutton Becomes a Swimming Legend of Lake Geneva
- Sir John Royden Raising Money And Hopes
- Victorious Vegans And Vegetarians
- Vedika Bolliger Awarded Gertrude Ederle Award
- Vedika Bolliger website
- Vegetarians In The Open Water
- Kindergarten Sonnenberg
- DUV Ultrarunning Statistics
- Results Lensahn Triple Ironman
- List of Vedika`s Channel Swims
- Enduring Legacy Of Sri Chinmoy
- World Marathon Swimming Rankings (Overall Female)
- No Meat, No Problems
- Vedika Bolliger, Marathoner Extraordinaire
- Satisfaction Guaranteed
- Vedika Bolliger Swims All Day And Night
- What Is A Goggle Tan?
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Mark Sheridan Awarded Diamond Jubilee Special Award
- Lake Geneva Swimming Association List of Legends
- Lake Geneva Swimming Association
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- Updated 24-Hour Club
- 24-hour Club…Swimming All Day And Night
- Swimming For More Than 24 Hours
