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is a Slovenian ultra marathon swimmer, born: October 1 1954, Mokronog , Slovenia.In 2000 he swam the Danube River (2860 km) and had achieved the world's long distance swimming record (3004 km) in 58 days. In July 2001 he achieved one more world record - 504 km of non-stop swimming in Danube within 84 hours and 10 minutes. In 2002, he swam the entire Mississippi River (3885 km) in 68 days. In 2003, he swam the Argentinean river Parana (1930 km). On June 10th, 2004, Martin started swimming down the Yangtze river (6300 km, the longest river in Asia, the third longest in the world) in China. He reached Shangai in 40 days on July 30th, 2004, one day before planned.
His first two riversMurray River in Australia Australia A river is a large natural waterway. It is a specific term in the vernacular for large streams, stream being the umbrella term used in the scientific community for all flowing natural waterways. In the vernacular, strea to beat were: in 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi the river KrkaThere are three rivers named Krka ( Latin name Korkoras : A river in Slovenia, with length circa 111 km; it is a right tributary of the river Sava near Brezice. It has its source approximately 25 km southeast of Ljubljana, most important town near Krka is (105 km) in his homeland, in 28 hours, and in 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. the boundary river Kolpa ( CroatianSerbo-Croatian srpskohrvatski or hrvatskosrpski is a name for a language of the Western group of the South Slavic languages. Serbo-Croatian was one of the official languages of the former Yugoslavia (the other two were Slovenian and Macedonian). It contin Kupa) (62 km), in 16 hours.
During his swims, he sleeps for 5 hours each day. He prepares himself for a such long swimming over a year and a half. It usually takes 6 to 7 months for Strel to recover his body in a normal state. The NileThe Nile ( Arabic: an-nil , in Africa, is one of the two longest rivers on Earth. Whether the Nile is longer than South America's Amazon still remains the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers has been proposed as his next place to swim, but he has said that no one can do such a thing.
His motto is "I swim for peace, friendship and clean water." (Slovene "Plavam za mir, prijateljstvo in ciste vode")
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