Stephen Autry Joins Triple Crown Club

Stephen Autry, an orthopaedic surgeon who owns a farm in Mount Olivet, Kentucky, became the 35th person overall to complete the Triple Crown of Marathon Swimming. Stephen completed his Manhattan Island swim in July 2009 in 8:37, his English Channel swim in 16:05 in 2007 and Catalina Channel swim in 12:51 this week.

Three Coronas For Antonio Arguelles

Antonio Argüelles (Toño) of Mexico because the first Mexican marathon swimmer and 34th person overall to complete the Triple Crown of Marathon Swimming.

Toño became the third person to Triple Crown in one season after he completed his English Channel swim in 12:54 on September 6th, his second crossing of the Channel after a 10-year hiatus. This swim was in addition to his June 5th Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and his July 13th Catalina Channel crossing.

As Toño says on his Triple Corona website, "We all have a channel to cross: for some, that is the English Channel; for others, it is 30 minutes of daily exercise; and for some, it is not to quit school."

"In April, I decided to celebrate my 50-year-old birthday with a quest of the Triple Crown in one season. I swam Manhattan in June, Catalina in July and the Channel in September."

One More Triple Crown Winner

We earlier posted the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, but inadvertently missed one individual.

Erica Moffett, a 39-year-old Managing Director of Oppenheimer & Co. in New York City, was added to the 30-person list of swimmers who have completed the Triple Crown. She did Manhattan Island in 2007 in 8:36, Catalina in 2008 in 11:49, and the English Channel in 2006 in 14:19...as well as the Cape of Good Hope in 2005 in 2:22 and the Strait of Gibraltar in 2004 in 4:00.