Lynne Cox

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lynne Cox
Occupation	American Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1957(1957-01-02)
Age	67
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Capricorn

Lynne Cox Biography

Lynne Cox is one of the most popular and richest American swimmer who was born on January 2, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Lynne Cox, born 2 January 1957, is an American long-distance swimmer, writer, and speaker. Her most notable accomplishment is her first swim in the Bering Strait between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. This feat was recognized as easing Cold War tensions between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Her other accomplishment was to swim more than one mile (1.6 km), in Antarctica’s waters. Cox was in water for 25 minutes, swimming 1.22 mi (1.96 km) Swimming to Antarctica was her book.

Her second book, Grayson, details her encounter with a lost baby gray whale during an early morning workout off the coast of California. It was published in 2006.

In 2011, she published South with the Sun, both a biography of Roald Amundsen and a chronicle of her 2007 swimming expedition to Greenland, Baffin Island and Alaska, tracing Amundsen’s Northwest Passage expedition.

Lynne Cox, a May 1992 swimmer, swam in Titicaca (Andean Lake Titicaca), which is at 3,812m (12,507ft) elevation and is the highest navigable lake in the world. Titicaca’s water temperature is 13-14 degrees Celsius (56-58 degrees F), which is warmer than the Bering Strait. However, the unusual challenges presented by the high altitude and unidentified biting animals made it a difficult swim. In 3 hours and 48 minutes, the swimmer covered approximately 10 miles between Copacabana (Bolivia) to Chimbo, Peru. Support boats were provided by the Bolivian Navy.

Lynne Cox Net Worth

Lynne Cox is one of the richest American Swimmer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lynne Cox 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She and her team were the first teenagers to cross the Catalina Island Channel in California. She holds the record twice for crossing the English Channel from England into France in the fastest time (1972 in 9 hours 57 mins and 1973 in 9 hours 36 mins). Cox was the first woman to swim 10 km (10 mi) of Cook Strait in New Zealand. She was also the first person to swim across the Straits of Magellan, Chile, in 1976.

Cox is most famous for his swim of 2 hours and 5 minutes in Bering Strait, 7 August 1987. He was swimming from Little Diomede, Alaska, to Big Diomede. The water temperature was around 43 to 44 degrees F (6 to 7 degrees C). People living on the Diomede islands, which are only 3.7km (2.3 mi) apart at the time, could not travel between them. However, the Inuit communities were closely connected until Big Diomede’s removal to the Russian mainland. She was praised by both the US President Ronald Reagan, and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for her achievements a few years prior to the end of Cold War.

In August 2006, joined by local swimmers, Lynne Cox swam across the Ohio River in Cincinnati from the Serpentine Wall to Newport, Kentucky, to bring attention to plans to decrease the water-quality standards for the Ohio River.

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Lynne Ranked on the list of most popular American swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lynne Cox celebrates birthday on January 2 of every year.