Mother-son from Karnataka set astounding 12-hour non-stop swimming record

Jyoti S. Kori and her son Vihan set an astounding 12-hour non-stop swimming record by swimming a relay, earning a position in both the Asia and India Books of Records. The Swimmers Club of Belagavi, in partnership with the Aquarius Swim Club Belagavi, organised the record-breaking event at the KLE Suvarna JNMC Swimming Pool. Jyoti S. Kori, a State Government Para Medical Officer, and her son Vihan, a sixth-grade student at St. Xavier’s High School, are both excellent swimmers. They received skilled guidance in their training from Coach Unmesh G. Khalagatagi and his colleagues.

Siddhartha Agarwal’s Historic Win

In other news, Swim Life announced that Siddhartha Agarwal has become the oldest Indian swimmer to swim across the English Channel (between England and France). On August 29, the 49-year-old swimmed across the English Channel. The Bengaluru man took 15 hours and six minutes to cover the 42-kilometer distance.

Siddhartha had no idea he’d be the oldest Indian to swim across the English Channel. His trip began in 2018, when he crossed the Channel with an eight-person relay team. Remarkably, at the age of 46, Srikaanth Viswanathan of Bengaluru entered the Limca Book of Records as the oldest person to swim the English Channel solo, according to ANI.

Six years later, Sid, as he is known among the swimming community, outperformed the other swimmer by completing the 42-kilometer distance. He completed the swim in 15 hours and six minutes, with the last 10 kilometres offering the most difficult test of endurance as he battled stiff conditions, high tides, and a windspeed of around 25 miles per hour.

“Until I actually completed the swim, I never believed that I could actually do this. It took me a while for it to sink in. What worked for me was that I trusted my coach, I believed in the process and just focused on what I needed to do that week and that month,” Siddhartha said in a Swim Life statement, “It was the mammoth preparations for the solo swim under a taskmaster of a coach Satish Kumar, a former international swimmer himself, that was the most challenging.”

“I was never a swimmer; at best I would splash around in the pool at my school as a kid. To inculcate the discipline and clock those regular hours in the pool despite my role as an entrepreneur in real estate and family commitments was the real challenge that excited me,” he stated.

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