Spyros Chrysikopoulos World Record 358km in 7 straight days - Episode 209

Spyros Chrysikopoulos World Record 358km in 7 straight days - Episode 209

Author: Social Kick November 19, 2024 Duration: 54:11
Do you ever get bored swimming? He doesn’t. Do you ever get tired swimming? He doesn’t. Do your shoulders hurt swimming? His don’t. This man has swam 358.2km (222.6 mi) in a single week, earning him the Guinness World Record for most meters swum in a week in a 50m pool. No stranger to ultra endurance mega efforts, Spyros Chrysikopoulos has also taken on gnarly open water marathon challenges that require him to swim for 30+ hours straight across the open ocean, and he has also once swum over 90km in a single day!! So what have you accomplished today?

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