Biography

  • Birth Place: Sydney, Australia
Susie Maroney is an Austrlian marathon swimmer. Her first national recognitionl for long-distance swimming came in 1989 when placed third in the Australian Marathon Swimming Championships at the age of only 14.

Since then she has achieved numerous world records and seemingly unbeatable statistics. These include:

- Youngest Person to swim the English Channel (age 16)
- Three time winner of the Manhattan Island
- At age 22 became the first person to swim the Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States.
- Swam a record 122 miles from Mexico to Cuba, covering the longest distance ever swum without flippers in open sea, in 38 hours and 33 minutes.

Susie Maroney (5)