Results courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation here. Videos courtesy of Jamie Tout.

The 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim is the longest competitive marathon swim in the world that takes swimmers 193 km down the Hudson and into New York Harbor.

Co-organizer David Barra (together with Rondi Davies) explains, “For one week, each day’s marathon swim begins with the ebb tide at one bridge and ends at the next, covering distances ranging from 21.2 km to 31.9 km. Swimmers can participate as solos or relays  in one to all of the seven stages.”

Barra, known to say, “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing”, certainly lives up to that motto.

The swim course, held since 2011, requires the 7-stagers to swim under the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, the Mid-Hudson Bridge, the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, the Bear Mt Bridge, the New Tappan Zee, the George Washington Bridge, and the Verrazzanno-Narrows Bridge – 8 bridges in total and hence the name of the event

2017 Results

2017 was a very good year.

In 2017, there were 9 swimmers who completed all 7 stage swims:

• Stephen Rouch in a cumulative time of 35 hours 28 minutes
• Virgilio Graco Morlan in 38 hours 20 minutes
• Flavio Toi in 38 hours 51 minutes
• Marta Izo in 39 hours 3 minutes
• Abigail Fairman in 39 hours 10 minutes
• Edward Riley in 41 hours 49 minutes
• Jamie Tout in 42 hours 0 minutes
• Steve Gruenwald in 44 hours 39 minutes
• Harry Finger in 45 hours 38 minutes

June 15th 2017 Stage 1 Results – 29.5 km from Rip Van Winkle Bridge to Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge [see short video above]

1. Stephen Rouch (USA, 36) 5:18:19
2. Virgilio Graco Morlan (41, Mexico) 5:19:53
3. Flavio Toi (Brazil) 5:26:49
4. Abigail Fairman (40, USA) 5:27:43
5. Marta Izo (Brazil) 5:28:49
6. Edward Riley (USA) 5:38:18
7. Katrin Walter (39, Germany) 5:49:44
8. Jamie Tout (64, USA) 5:53:29
9. Spencer Schneider (57, USA) 5:53:49
10. Steve Gruenwald (55, USA) 6:00:41
11. Harry Finger (Brazil) 6:02:00
12. Judith Caves (57, USA) 6:06:41
13. Susan Kirk (57, USA) 7:25:24
14. Mary Stella (40, USA) 8:40:30
15. Janine Serell (55, USA) 8:51:30

June 16th 2017 Stage 2 Results – 31.9 km from Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge to Mid-Hudson Bridge [see short video above]

1. Stephen Rouch (USA, 36) 5:47:46
2. Virgilio Graco Morlan (41, Mexico) 6:21:31
3. Abigail Fairman (40, USA) 6:24:52
4. John Hughes (55, USA) 6:27:49
5. Marta Izo (Brazil) 6:30:04
6. Michele Walters (42, USA) 6:36:06
7. Flavio Toi (Brazil) 6:49:35
8. Devon Clifford (27, USA) 7:21:52
9. Edward Riley (USA) 7:34:18
10. Jamie Tout (64, USA) 7:42:33
11. Harry Finger (Brazil) 8:12:31
12. Steve Gruenwald (55, USA) 8:13:37

June 17th 2017 Stage 3 Results – 21.2 km from Mid-Hudson Bridge to Newburgh-Beacon Bridge [see short video above]

1. Stephen Rouch (USA, 36) 3:51:48
2. Diego López Dominguez (35, Spain) 3:52:56
3. Mark Spratt (61, USA) 4:07:23
4. Flavio Toi (Brazil) 4:13:34
5. Virgilio Graco Morlan (41, Mexico) 4:13:56
6. Edward Riley (USA) 4:14:21
7. Anael Astic (29, USA) 4:16:17
8. Abigail Fairman (40, USA) 4:19:59
9. Marta Izo (Brazil) 4:19:59
10. Jamie Tout (64, USA) 4:22:50
11. Katrin Walter (39, Germany) 4:23:40
12. Spencer Schneider (57, USA) 4:24:00
13. Erica Flickinger (39, USA) 4:24:25
14. Dana Page (56, USA) 4:32:23
15. Harry Finger (Brazil) 4:44:20
16. Steve Gruenwald (55, USA) 4:49:51
17. Paula Yankauskas (62, USA) 5:04:54

For more information, visit the New York Open Water (@nyopenwater) website here.

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