One on One Swimmer Yvetta Hlaváčová – Women’s world record-holder for fastest Channel crossing
On Saturday 32-year-old long-distance swimmer Yvetta Hlaváčová completed the last leg of a 142 kilometre swim up the Vltava River, becoming the only Czech woman to have ever conquered the Vltava against the current. Hundreds cheered her on from the shore as she approached the finish line after 35 hours over seven days, an accomplishment to be set in the Guinness Book of World Records. Prior to the week-long marathon, we had a chance to speak to Yvetta for One on One, taped at Prague’s Žluté Lázně. We discussed the Vltava challenge as well as her greatest accomplishment to date – the fastest women’s crossing in history of the English Channel in 2006. She also told us how she first began swimming when she was just a kid.
La Manche, photo: www.yvett.cz
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