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3 unusual facts about Enrique Tirabocchi


Enrique Tirabocchi

In a February 1920 attempt to swim from Colonia, Uruguay across the River Plate to Buenos Aires, Tirabocchi set a record by being in the water for 24 hours and 2 minutes, breaking the record set by Thomas William Burgess in his 1911 Channel swim of 22 hours and 35 minutes.

He was the first person to swim from France to England and finished the swim in 16 hours and 33 minutes, beating the record set by Matthew Webb when he was the first to make the crossing more than 50 years earlier.

Henry Sullivan

He was escorted out to the cheering crowd by Enrique Tirabocchi, an Italian swimmer who would make the crossing himself later that year.



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