{"id":433228,"date":"2020-05-26T01:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T08:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=433228"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:38:15","slug":"how-a-wrigley-ocean-marathon-win-for-zimmy-off-catalina-in-1927-might-have-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/how-a-wrigley-ocean-marathon-win-for-zimmy-off-catalina-in-1927-might-have-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Wrigley Ocean Marathon Win For \u2018Zimmy\u2019 Off Catalina in 1927 Might Have Changed The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1927, 17-year old Canadian George Young<\/strong> famously won The Wrigley Ocean Marathon\u00a0<\/strong>across the Catalina Channel sponsored by the chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jnr<\/strong>. \u00a0Had Charles \u2018Zimmy\u2019 Zibleman<\/strong> won the race, the changes that would have brought about in Marathon and Disability Swimming might well have spilled well beyond the water. Here, a team of marathon devotees looks at why and how. <\/span><\/p>\n

by IMSHOF Honorees Penny Lee Dean <\/strong>and Conrad Wennerberg<\/strong>, who provided the key details for this feature. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks are also due to\u00a0Ros Hardiman<\/strong>, Honorees David Stevens Clark, Steven Mu\u00f1atones, Richard Broer,<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. David Smith and Ned Denison\u00a0<\/strong>for helping to bring together the threads of this swimming history<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sea Goddess<\/strong> (right) is the official trophy for the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF)<\/strong><\/a>. The names of all Honorees are engraved on the 2-meter high sculpture, which is housed in an ISHOF museum in Florida about to get the facelift of its lifetime (and you can be a part of it, through the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s One in A Thousand<\/strong><\/a> campaign):<\/p>\n