{"id":623353,"date":"2025-10-02T13:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=623353"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:12:05","slug":"singapores-chua-jia-long-completes-open-water-triple-crown-in-record-23-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/singapores-chua-jia-long-completes-open-water-triple-crown-in-record-23-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s Chua Jia Long Completes Open Water Triple Crown in Record 23 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singapore\u2019s Chua Jia Long Completes Open Water Triple Crown in Record 23 Days<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chua Jia Long of Singapore has completed the three Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in a record 23 days, culminating this week.<\/p>\n

Chua swam the 32.2-kilometer Catalina Channel swim in California on Sept. 5, the 20 Bridges circumnavigation of the Island of Manhattan (48.5 km) on Sept. 10 and the English Channel swim on Sept. 27.<\/p>\n

The last swim, which had been delayed due to weather, meant he finished the three swims faster than the 27 days taken by Joel Matos Ortiz<\/strong> of Puerto Rico in 2021. He’s also the first swimmer from Singapore to finish the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n

He completed the Catalina swim in 11 hours, 17 minutes. The 20 Bridges took seven hours, 56 minutes, in rainy conditions. He made the distance from England to France<\/a> in 12 hours, 41 minutes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI did not get a chance to really celebrate this with my loved ones,\u201d Chua said in an interview with the Straits Times<\/a>. \u201cRight now, I\u2019m still trying to process the experience while recovering from the English Channel swim.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chua made his first major open water swim in 2023, swimming 192 kilometers in New York\u2019s Hudson River. He began challenging up to nine hours a day for this challenge starting in 2024.<\/p>\n
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