Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vedika Bolliger looked absolutely radiant after she completed her 42 hour 45 minute crossing of Lake Geneva in 1999.* From Villeneuve to Geneva, the distance was 75 km reported Vasanti Niemz. In addition to her historic crossing, Bolliger also made 5 crossings of the English Channel including swims of […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The children at the Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten Sonnenberg Uster in Switzerland look at their teacher Vedika Bolliger as an educator and friend. But the open water swimming community remembers Bollinger as someone with incredible stamina. Over the course of her career, she made five successful crossings of the English