- Penny Lee Dean
Penny Lee Dean is an American long distance swimmer, who set the record for the fastest swim across the
English Channel in 1978 in a time of 7 h 40 mins, [cite news | url=http://www.doverlife.co.uk/channelswimming/crossings/1978/0| title=Dover Life Channel Swimming - Successful Crossings | publisher=| date=| accessdate=] beating the previous record by over 1 h and 5 mins. This record stood for 16 years until 1994 when it was broken byChad Hundeby in a time of 7 h 17 mins, and has been broken on several occasions since then.Dean was admitted to the
International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1996. [cite news | url=http://www.ishof.org/honorees/alphabetical/HonorD.html| title=International Swimming Hall of Fame | publisher=| date=| accessdate=]Dean was forced to give up competition in the early 1980s, when her doctors told her to stop all exercise as years of swimming had taken its toll on her body. She is now a Professor of physical education and the women’s
swimming andwater polo coach atPomona College .References
* Penny Lee Dean, "Open Water Swimming", Human Kinetics Publishers, 1998 ISBN 0-88-011704-4
External links
* [http://www.pomona.edu/events/news/newsitems/080403dean.shtml Article on Penny from News@Pomona]
* [http://www.ishof.org/honorees/96/96pdean.html Bio of Penny at ISHOF]
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