Endurance swimmer Stephen Redmond is famously known for being the first person in the world to successfully complete the epic Oceans Seven Challenge. Having retired from the professional rugby scene, Steve Redmond became heavily involved in triathlons completing the Lanzarote Ironman in 2008. Finding a particular love for open water swimming, Stephen naturally progressed to longer distance events. In 2009 the acclaimed endurance swimmer swam across the English Channel in 20 hours.
This was the turning point for Stephen where he began to realise his ambition of the Oceans Seven Challenge. The Oceans Seven Challenge is a grueling marathon swimming challenge that consists of swimming across seven open water channels across 5 different continents. Consisting of over 200km of open water swimming endurance swimmer Stephen now began to believe this challenge was possible and something that he could achieve. What followed the English Channel was a grueling exploit to complete the remaining Oceans Seven Challenge.
During this time endurance swimmer Redmond had to contend with plummeting water temperatures, strong currents, adverse weather, burning sunburn, injury, the constant danger of shark attacks, and the indescribable pain from jellyfish stings. July 15th 2012 saw Stephen Redmond conquer the final leg with the Tsugaru Channel, Japan in 12 hours 45 minutes. He could now be content knowing that he was the first person in the world to conquer the Oceans Seven Challenge. For his exploits, Steve Redmond was recently awarded the 2012 “Man of the Year” by the World Open Water Swimming Association.
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