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Stefan Reinke
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Stefan Reinke and Ryan Leong after finishing a 19 hour 32 minute crossing of the Molokai Channel in Hawaii
Stefan Reinke is a 59-year-old open water swimmer and attorney from Hawaii.
Open Water Swimming Career Highlights
- He competed in the 7 km Possibly Annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2013.
- He completed a Maui Channel crossing.
- He serves as the president Waikiki Roughwater Swim Committee.
- He served as the former president of the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation between 2011-2013.
- He served as the former chairman of the Outrigger Canoe Club swim committee (2009-2014) in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- He participated in the 2015 S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge is a 4-day stage swim in Arizona in the Saguaro Lake, Canyon Lake, Apache Lake, and Roosevelt Lake, one of the longest marathon swimming events in the world. He finished 4th overall on Day One at the 4-day stage swim, S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, in Arizona in Saguaro Lake, a 9.5-mile (15.2 km) course at 1529-feet (466m) elevation, in 3:26:06.9. He finished 5th on Day Two at the S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge in Canyon Lake.
- He finished 4th overall in the 2015 SCAR Swim Series (SCAR Swim Challenge) in a cumulative time of 17 hours 14 minutes 37.3 seconds on 9 May 2015.
- He participated in the 2016 S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge.
- On 4 September 2017, he completed a 42 km crossing of the Molokai Channel from Molokai Island to Oahu in 19 hours 32 minutes at the age of 59 in a tandem swim with Ryan Leong. It was their second attempt in a week; the first attempt was called due to the presence of a tiger shark.
- Reinke won the men's 1-mile race at the inaugural Maui Jim South Shore Classic at Queen's Surf Beach on Waikiki in Honolulu, Hawaii on 16 May 2015.
- On 21 June 2014, he completed the 58 km (36-mile) END-WET in 8 hours 46 minutes down the Red River between North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota in the United States.
- On 6 May 2015, he completed a 13.3 km crossing of Saguaro Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 3 hours 19 minutes 48 seconds.
- On 7 May 2015, he completed the 14.1 km crossing of Canyon Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 3 hours 20 minutes 17 seconds.
- On 8 May 2015, he completed the 22.8 km crossing of Apache Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 7 hours 37 minutes 28 seconds.
- On 9 May 2015, he completed the 9 km crossing of Roosevelt Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 2 hours 57 minutes 3 seconds.
- On 27 April 2016, he completed the 13.3 km crossing of Saguaro Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 3 hours 27 minutes 55 seconds.
- On 28 April 2016, he completed the 14.1 km crossing of Canyon Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 3 hours 52 minutes 59 seconds.
- On 30 April 2016, he completed the 9 km crossing of Roosevelt Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 3 hours 4 minutes 13 seconds.
- On 26 April 2017, he completed the 13.3 km crossing of Saguaro Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 3 hours 26 minutes 16 seconds.
- On 27 April 2017, he completed the 14.1 km crossing of Canyon Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 3 hours 32 minutes 16 seconds.
- On 29 April 2017, he completed the 9 km crossing of Roosevelt Lake in the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona in 2 hours 51 minutes 51 seconds.
- He completed the 2017 ʻAu I Nā Mokupuni ʻEkolu Swim Challenge crossing the 13.5 km Pailolo Channel, 14.9 km Kalohi Channel, and 14.1 km Auau Channel in 3 days.
- Between 25-28 April 2018, he completed all four stage swims of the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona (9.5-mile or 15.2 km Saguaro Lake + 9-mile or 14.4 km Canyon Lake + 17-mile or 27.3 km Apache Lake + 6.2-mile or 10 km Roosevelt Lake), finishing 2nd overall at the age of 49 in a cumulative time of 15 hours 37 minutes 47.3 seconds to set a new men's record. He won the Saguaro Lake crossing on 25 April 2018 in 3 hours 22 minutes 36.4 seconds.
- In August 2018, he finished 8th in the Mountain Swim Series Cliff Backyard Ultra Swim by completing 11 loops of a 1.5 km course (16.5 km cumulative total) at 2,425 meters in altitude in Wellington Lake in Bailey, Colorado amid the Rocky Mountains.
- He completed a 16 km crossing of the Maui Channel from the island of Lanai to the island of Maui in Hawaii on 18 May 2019 in 5 hours 22 minutes in a 6-man tandem swim with Bill Goding, Ryan Leong, Hudson Slay, Quinn Riordan and Marcus Guttman.
- He swam the three channels between Maui, Lanai and Molokai in Hawaii on three successive days on 12-15 September 2019 in the Au I Na Mokupuni Ekolu Endurance Challenge Invitational:
- Day One across the 14.9 km Kalohi Channel between Lanai and Molokai in 6 hours 4 minutes 40 seconds
- Day Two across the 13.5 km Pailolo Channel between Maui and Molokai in 5 hours 50 minutes 10 seconds
- Day Three across the 14.1 km Auau Channel between Lanai and Maui in 7 hours 47 minutes
- He serves as the race director for the annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- He finished 5th in the 10 km North Shore Challenge marathon swim on Oahu on 7 September 2019 at the age of 61.
- On 8 August 2020, Stefan Reinke, Bill Goding, Lectie Altman, Marcus Guttmann, and Ryan Leong Guttmann finished a 27.3 km tandem crossing of the Kaulakahi Channel from Barking Sands Beach on Kauai to Ni'ihau in 11 hours 38 minutes.
External links
- Hawaiian Channel Swimming, A View By Dr. Steven Minaglia
- Kings And Queens Of The Hawaiian Island Channels
- Swim Alternatives To Cross Kealaikahiki Channel and Alalakeiki Channel In Hawaii
- A Race For All Ages: Aqua Sphere North Shore 5K/10K Swim
- Ala Moana Beach Swim Club Crosses Kaulakahi Channel With Calvin
- Steve Minaglia Does His 19th Channel Crossing With Friends
- Say Aloha To This Year’s Waikiki Roughwater Swim
- Channel Swimming With Aloha
- 2019 ʻAu I Nā Mokupuni ʻEkolu
- Stefan Rienke, Attorney
- S.C.A.R. Day One In Saguaro
- Christine Cossette, Elizabeth Fry Extend The Possible
- S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge
- Marathon Swimming
- Open Water Swimming
- South Shore Classic
- Swimming The South Shore
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Duke Foundation
- END-WET
- Ain't No Sharks In North Dakota, Just A Mighty Red River
- Doubly Tough, Doubly Rough, Doubly Fun
- Double The Distance, Twice As Nice
- Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Swim, The Double Roughwater
- Possibly Annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Dan Projansky, 56 Going On 36
- END-WET Begins And Ends Today
- END-WET: Epic, Iconic And Surreally Long
- Open Water Swimming
- Results And Report Of The 2014 END-WET
- Vernon Gets Knighted In Hawaii
- Cherelle Osteringer Wins Hawaiian Looong Distance Swim
- Racing Young vs Old, Male vs Female In Hawaii
- Marathon Swimmers Federation bio
- Kaiwi Swim Challenge
- Turning An Awww...OH NO Into A Yes
- Making Molokai, Swimming With Sharks
- SCAR Swim Challenge
- Stefan Reinke Outduels Serbo Simeoni On SCAR Day 1
- S.C.A.R. Is Like Night And Day
- Jamie Ann Phillips Forges Into Lead In Apache Lake
- Reinke Hangs On, Jamie Ann Phillips Swimming Strong
- As Night Falls, So Does Men's Record. Jamie Ann Phillips Leads Way With Stefan Reinke
- Endurance Challenge
- 3 For 3, The ʻAu I Nā Mokupuni ʻEkolu Swim Challenge
- Last To Fail, First To Win
- Bill Goding Does His 20th Maui Channel Crossing
