Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty

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Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty

Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty is a marathon swimmer from India.

Open Water Swimming Career Highlights

She completed a crossing of the English Channel in 10 hours 46 minutes in 1989 .
She completed a crossing of the English Channel in 14 hours 15 minutes in 1999.
She completed a crossing of the Catalina Channel on 28 August 2002 in 10 hours 24 minutes at the age of 42.
On 25 March 2004, she completed a crossing of the Cook Strait in 9 hours 4 minutes at the age of 44. .
On 19 August 2000, she completed a crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar in 4 hours 45 minutes at the age of 40.
On 29 July 2001, she completed the Lake Zurich Marathon Swim in Switzerland in 6 hours 48 minutes 40 seconds at the age of 41.
She has completed 4 of the 7 Oceans Seven channel crossings.
She swam 29 km across the Palk Strait from Talaimannar, Sri Lanka to Dhanushkodi, Tamil Nadu, India in 14 hours 52 minutes on 20 August 2004 as an unprecedented swim.
She swam 26 km across the Toroneos Gulf from Cassandra to Nikiti in Greece in 8 hours 11 minutes.
She swam in the Tyrrhenian Sea (water surrounded by Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia) in 2001.
She swam from Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town to Robben Island in South Africa on 29 April 2005 in 4 hours 26 minutes.
She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1990.
She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009.
She was awarded the 2002 Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award for the Water Category.

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