Sri Chinmoy Marathon Swim Half Century Club Members
Courtesy of Vasanti Niemz, Lake Zürich, Rapperswil-Zurich, Switzerland.
9-time Sri Chinmoy Marathon Swim finisher Vasanti Niemz compiled a list of Half Century swimmers of the 26.4 km Rapperswil-to-Zurich course. Niemz completed the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Swim five times over the age of 50.
The Half Century Club members are people at least 50 years old who complete a marathon swim without a wetsuit like the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Swim.
Half Century Club Members of the 26.4 km Sri Chinmoy Marathon Swim – bioprene:
• Heinz Lorenz, 1987 (10:29:05, age 55), Switzerland
• Heinz Lorenz, 1988 (12:09:50, age 56), Switzerland
• Heinz Lorenz, 1989 (11:42:38, age 57), Switzerland
• Dieter Loeliger, 1998 (8:24:45, age 65), Australia
• Dieter Loeliger, 2000 (8:56:45, age 67), Australia
• Ann Richardson, 2004 (10:18:01, age 51), Great Britain
• Cliff Golding, 2004 (10:48:52, age 50), Great Britain
• Richard Haan, 2004 (11:04:58, age 55), Czech Republic
• Trevor Colman, 2007 (12:36:27, age 53), Great Britain
• Jane Murphy, 2007 (11:12:13, age 51), Great Britain
• Vasanti Niemz, 2007 (11:20:10, age 50), Germany
• Margy Sullivan, 2007 (11:40:18, age 51), Great Britain
• Ned Denison, 2008 (7:36:13, age 51), Ireland – new masters record
• Linda Ashmore, 2008 (9:55:25, age 63), Great Britain
• Maxine Fitzpatrick, 2008 (10:59:02, age 60), Great Britain
• Mo Siegel, 2009 (10:58:53, born 1951), USA
• Bruno Dobelmann, 2009 (11:01:10, age 50), Germany
• Kate Mason, 2010 (9.27:06, age 51), Great Britain
• Vasanti Niemz, 2010 (9:48:08, age 53), Germany
• Steve Payne, 2010 (9:51:22, age 50), Australia
• Ellery McGowan, 2010 (11:35:10, age 63), Great Britain
• Kristine Buckley, 2011 (no official time, finish after 12 hour cut-off, age 51), USA
• Ann Richardson, 2012 (10:39:35, age 59), Great Britain
• Barbara Held, 2013 (8:10:50, age 59), USA
• Roger Finch, 2013, (8:47:37, age 55), South Africa
• James Norton, 2013 (8:47:39, age 50), Canada
• Peter Rütten, 2013 (11:01:10, age 56), Germany
• Dermis Huseyin, 2014 (8:51:01, age 51), Turkey/British
• Simon Lee, 2014 (8:39:24, age 50), Great Britain
• Steve Payne, 2014 (11:37:57, age 54), Australia
• Stefan Schyrer, 2015 (9:20:42, age 50), Germany
• Philippe Fort, 2015 (10:06:55, age 50), France
• Vasanti Niemz, 2015 (10:19:39, age 58), Germany
• Anna DeLozier, 2016 (7:38:59, age 53), USA
• Paschal Phelan, 2016 (8:30:51, age 50), India
• Scott Roger, 2016 (8:44:50, age 50), Great Britain
• Jürg Amman, 2016 (9:17:07, age 51), Sweden
• Adrian Russel, 2016 (10;56:59, age 50), Great Britain
• Kate Robarts, 2016 (11:45:17, age 54), Great Britain
• Rebecca Stuart, 2017 (8:11:09, age 50), Great Britain
• Boguslaw Wozniak, 2017 (8:21:25, age 57), Poland
• James Penrose, 2017 (9:31:41, age 65), USA
• Jane Bloore, 2017 (9:39:56, age 51), Great Britain
• Vasanti Niemz, 2017 (10:25:58, age 60), Germany
• James Karn, 2018, (8:50:40, age 55), USA
• Martyn Webster, 2018, (8:51:27, age 51), Great Britain
• Ed Riley, 2018 (9:59:05, age 60), USA
• David Merriman, 2018 (10:51:23, age 52), Ireland
• Stefan Jung, 2018 (11:28:31, age 54), Germany
• Mick Hinde, 2018 (11:38:33, age 50-51), Great Britain
• Vasanti Niemz, 2018 (11:58:34, age 61), Germany
• Mark Johnston, 2019 (6:59:35 age 58), USA – new masters record
• Martin Keller, 2019 (7:41:08, age 50), Switzerland
• Didier Castagna, 2019 (8:29:42, age 50), France
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