Katie Pumphrey, who lives in Baltimore, said she had become the first person on record to complete the swim from the bay to the harbor.
Katie Humphrey, 36, swims from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to the Harborplace Amphitheater in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Tuesday. Her first stoke — at 3:19 a.m. Tuesday — marked the start of a 14-hour-long swim. By 5:13 p.m., Pumphrey had reached the Harborplace Amphitheater in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, marking the milestone of a swimmable harbor.
In June 2010, she tried the 4.4-mile Great Chesapeake Bay Swim and loved it. She remembers hugging her mom and saying: “That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I want to do it again.”the triple crown of open water swimming, a challenge that includes swimming about 36 miles in the English Channel between England and France, 20 miles in the Catalina Channel between Santa Catalina Island and the California mainland; and 28.5 miles around Manhattan.
said Adam Lindquist, the group’s vice president. “Katie is a true Baltimorean and she’s doing a wonderful thing for Baltimore City today.” Still, Lindquist said, there is much work ahead. For example, the city needs to improve sewer infrastructure and reduce stormwater runoff.
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