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BUTTERFLY RECORD MANHATTAN July 16th 2011

Dr. Julie ‘Madfish’ Bradshaw has completed another ‘milestone’ in the history of long distance butterfly swimming. On Saturday 16th July 2011 she made another record with her favourite and hardest stroke by circumnavigating the 28.5 miles course around Manhattan Island, New York in a fastest ever traditional ‘fly’ time of 9 hours and 28 minutes.
There is an acknowledged title in the swimming world, that of the Triple Crown ie. an elite group who have swam the English Channel (22 miles), Catalina Channel (22 miles) and Manhattan Island (28.5miles). Swimmers do this on frontcrawl, yet only two swimmers in the world have achieved two of the three on the proper traditional BUTTERFLY, Julie being one and Vicki Keith (Canada).

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