More than 300 amateurs are swimming through the night in tribute to Mercedes Gleitze who swam continuously for a record-breaking 47 hours in 1933.
Hundreds of amateur swimmers have joined a mass endurance event to honour the pioneering British sportswoman, Mercedes Gleitze.She also broke records in the pool, completing a 47-hour continuous swim in Worthing in 1933, an achievement being replicated by hundreds of participants this weekend.
Mercedes Gleitze in Folkestone in 1926 setting out on her seventh attempt to swim the English Channel.The ‘Swimming a long way together’ event – 90 years since Gleitze broke the record – began on Friday evening at the Sea Lanes outdoor pool on Madeira Drive, Brighton. Visual artist Vanessa Daws, who is behind the event, said: “Mercedes Gleitze loved music and there was always a kind of performative element.
Sea swimmer and writer, Philip Hoare, wrote a piece specifically for the event. He told ITV News: “I love that whole idea of bringing art into action because usually art is really static, it’s in an art gallery and you’re meant to stand solemnly and read a label but here, it’s all happening at once,” he said.
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