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Swimming Around Hong Kong Island

Swimming Around Hong Kong Island

Courtesy of Edith Terry, Zolima City Magazine, Hong Kong.

Edith Terry wrote about swimming around Hong Kong Island for Zolima City Magazine, featuring Edie Hu and her escort pilot Shu Pu on his 12 hour 37 minute swim.

Olympic swimmer and Cold Half Extreme Marathon Swim winner Alex Fong Lik-sun [shown above] will attempt to be the fourth swimmer to complete the 45 km circumnavigation swim on November 5th after Linda McGill in 1976, Simon Holliday in 2017, and Edie Hu in 2018.

Read about Terry’s article and Pu’s HK360Swim, Hong Kong’s equivalent of the 20 Bridges Swim around Manhattan Island, here.

Read about Fong’s charity swim attempt here on a really cool website.

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