"Fish man" Martin Strel, completed the 5,265-km (3,272-mile) marathon starting from Feb 1 in Peru when he arrived on April 7 near the city of Belem, the capital of the jungle state of Para, Brazil.Strel averaged about 50 miles a day during the course of his 65 days odyssey at the source of the world’s second-longest river.
The 52-year-old Solovenian has battled piranhas, crocodiles and exhaustion to become the first person to swim the entire length of the Amazon river in.
Martin Strel set three previous long-swim records, starting with the 3,004km Danube in 2000, then the 3,797km Mississippi in 2001 and the 4,003km Yangtze in 2004. Link
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