Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

Attila Manyoki of Hungary and Giannis Kotsiopoulos of Greece and two members of the Leandros swim club completed a 6 km Corinth Canal solo swim in 2005.

“We were the first swimmers who swam across the Corinthos channel,” explains Manyoki. “Kotsiopoupou was the organizer and one of the swimmers. All the Greek swimmers was engineers and I was the Hungarian representative. It was the centenary anniversary to open the channel. Hungarian engineers made it and that’s why they wanted me to swim with them. After the swim, we left to the Hungarian engineers monument where the Hungarian ambassador and the president of the channel were also present.”

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