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Chad Hundeby<\/strong>,\u00a0 2012 ISHOF Honor Open Water Swimmer, died suddenly on Saturday, June 12, 2021; He was just 50 years old.\u00a0 His brother Coleman said he suffered an apparent heart attack.<\/p>\n

The Open Water and Marathon Swimming community is in shock over the death of Hundeby but he certainly leaves a spectacular swimming legacy behind for his three young sons to be proud of.<\/p>\n

If there was one thing that everyone in the swimming community agreed on when it came to Chad Hundeby, it was how humble he was.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Read Hundeby’s ISHOF bio here<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1994, when Hundeby decided to swim the English Channel, he didn\u2019t set out to break the record that his coach Penny Lee Dean<\/strong> had set 16 years earlier, \u201cI just wanted to get across,\u201d he had said. But break her record he did, swimming across the shipping lanes from Dover to Cap Gris Nez in seven hours and 17 minutes, a finish that knocked 23 minutes off Dean\u2019s record. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t ask for a nicer person to destroy your record,\u201d she said at the time. That record held for an amazing 21 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no more humble and quiet professional marathon swimming champion like Chad,\u201d remembers Steven Munatones<\/strong>, Founder of World Open Water Swimming Association. “He won nearly every professional marathon swim in the world during his career \u2013 and you would never know it. He didn\u2019t brag or boast. He swam, he won, he moved onto the next race. He was such a gentleman with so many achievements to his name. He will be sorely missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hundeby swam in college at Southern Methodist University, but when he failed to make the 1988 Olympic team, he decided to concentrate solely on open water swimming.<\/p>\n

In 1991, Hundeby won the first-ever FINA World Open Water Championships, a 25 kilometer race down the Swan River in Perth, Australia, where thousands of spectators lined the course. He finished in a remarkable time of just over five hours.
\nIn 1993, he set the Catalina Channel record at eight hours, 14 minutes from the island to the mainland.\u00a0\u00a0He was honored as USA\u2019s Open Water Swimmer of the Year in 1991, 1993 and 1994, long before the discipline was added to the Olympic lineup.\u00a0 Hundeby was also named the IMSA\/FINA World Series Champion three times.<\/p>\n

Hundeby is survived by his wife, Jean Marie, sons Anders, Hayden, and Marcus, brother, Coleman, and parents Ted and Jan of Irvine. Funeral arrangements are pending, Coleman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"