Penny Lee Dean
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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, [1] beating the previous record by over 1 h and 5 mins. This record stood for 16 years until 1994 when it was broken by Chad 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. [2]
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 and water polo coach at Pomona College.
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- Penny Lee Dean, Open Water Swimming, Human Kinetics Publishers, 1998 ISBN 0-88-011704-4
