Spyros Chrysikopoulos

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Ultra marathon swimmer Spyros Chrysikopoulous from Greece

Spyros Chrysikopoulos is a Greek open water swimmer and former triathlete and Xterra World Champs Swimming coach from Athens.

Open Water Swimming Career Highlights

  • He was ranked in the 2016/17 Global Swim Series rankings in the Male Wetsuit Division.
  • He attempted a 124 km marathon swim from Rhodes to Kastelorizo in October 2018, but fell short after approximately 100 km and 30 hours.
  • He attempted the swim from Rhodes to Kastelorizo again in 2022 in a wetsuit. He started at 6:15 am on 7 September 2022 and finished on 9 September at 10:20 after 64 hours 5 minutes with Dr. Christos Vassos as his observer. The Greek island of Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands and lies in the eastern Aegean Sea, to the northeast of the island of Crete and southeast of Athens. Kastelorizo is a Greek island that is the smallest, and perhaps one of the prettiest, of the Dodecanese Islands, off the coast of Turkey. It is located at the most eastern edge of Greece and is sometimes called by its ancient name of Megisti which it retained until the Middle Ages.
  • He swam 358.2 km in 7 days straight from 9-16 May 9 2021 in a 50m pool at the Olympic Stadium Pool of Spyros Louis in Athens, Greece.
  • On 17 July 2021, he won the 24.5 km Toroneos Gulf Marathon from Kallithea to Nikita Beach in Greece in 8 hours 19 minutes 33 seconds.
  • He finished first in the 29 km Zirganos open water swimming race in 2016
  • In 2017, he swam 77.65 km in 24 hours in a wetsuit in a 50m pool.
  • In July 2017, he completed a four-way crossing of the Toroneos Gulf, swimming 98 km in 34 hours 10 minutes in a wetsuit.
  • In 2018, he swam 88.2 km in 24 hours in a wetsuit in a 50m pool.
  • In 2019, he swam 100 km in 29 hours 16 minutes. His 24-hour split was 82.25 km in a 50m pool.
  • In 2019, he competed in the 49th Toroneos Gulf Marathon, finishing in 5 hours 48 minutes.
  • In 2023, he swam 90.1 km in a 25m pool over 24 hours.

Spyros Chrysikopoulos Guinness World Record


Farthest distance swimming in one week in a 50m pool, set at the Athens Olympic Stadium (O.A.K.A), Greece, on 9-16 May 2021

H2O: 2 parts Heart, 1 part Obsession


H2O: 2 parts Heart, 1 part Obsession, a documentary film by Dimitra Babadima about Spyros Chrysikopoulos' four-way crossing of the Toroneos Bay in Greece.

TED Talk


The charms of transcendence at TEDxChios

External links

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