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On Tuesday, French tightrope walker claimed a new world record as he completed a 2,200-metre-long (nearly 1.4-mile) trip to Mont Saint-Michel along a wire suspended between a crane and the famous abbey on the tidal island.
Czech freediver David Vencl swims 80 metres beneath ice on February 23 2021 breaking the world record by braving freezing water in a lake at a former quarry in the village of Lahost, near the city of Teplice.
French freediver Arthur Guerin-Boeri sets another world record for the longest distance travelled under a sheet of frozen ice with a single breath, swimming 105 metres in Morrison's Quarry, Quebec. Wearing just a pair of swimming trunks, Guerin-Boeri swam for 2 minutes 27 seconds in water that was just 0.7 degrees Celsius.
An Australian long-distance swimmer on Wednesday broke the world record for the most number of swims across the Channel between England and France. Chloe McCardel, 36, made the swim for the 44th time, breaking the previous record of 43 she had held jointly with British swimmer Alison Streeter.