GUINNESS World Records celebrated the 16th annual Guinness World Records Day by announcing records, including the oldest person to complete a series of swimming challenges. Guinness, marking Thursday’s Guinness World Records Day, said Elizabeth Fry became the oldest person to complete the Oceans Seven open water swimming challenge at 60 years, 301 days old. Fry had to swim seven waterways to complete the challenge: the English Channel from England to France, the Catalina Challenge from Catalina Island to the California mainland, the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe to Africa, the Molokai Channel between the Hawaiian islands of Molokai and Oahu, the Tsugaru Channel from Honshu to Hokkaido in Japan, the Cook Strait from New Zealand’s North Island to the South island and the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland. (SD-Agencies) |