ARKANSAS GAZETTE Friday, August 14, 1987 . . .

RICHARD KERSH LYNNE COX

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. Jeff Williams

Richard Kersh of Russellville, : after building his body in Lake

: ' , Pardanelle, won the Manhattan Is­land Marathon Swim at New York

1 • ,Sunday.

Kersh finished the 28.5-mile counter-clockwise course around the island in 8 hours, 19 minutes and 31 seconds.

Kersh, 29, was joined by about 40 other swimmers from around the world (including Australia, In­dia and England) from age 17 to 58.

Kersh swims in Lake Dardanelle for about 1 ½ hours on weekdays and about 3½ hours on weekends.

* *' *In chilly waters off the coast of

• Alaska late last week, Lynne Cox,30, of Los Alamitos, Cal., becamethe first person to swim the Bering

, , : Strait and cross the International : • :Date Line separating the United ' ' 'State� and the Soviet Union.

The temperature of the, Bering � ·• : Sea waters was 42 degrees during

Cox's 2. 7-mile crossing. She • 'started from Alaska's Little Di­. ' omede Island and finished at the

'Soviet's Big Diomede Island. Cox has made many endurance

swims. Part of her effort in the Bering Sea was to aid research on

• hypothermia.* *' *

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