After winning a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics, Ms. Andersen became the world’s greatest marathon swimmer, regularly trouncing men.
Ms. Andersen broke 18 world marathon swimming records during her career, never lost to a woman and was the first person to swim the Santa Catalina Channel back-and-forth — in nearly 27 hours, nonstop. HerIn 1962, at a 50-mile swim from Chicago to Kenosha, Wis., an Egyptian team relied on Ms. Andersen as the event pacesetter. That strategy proved unwise. As she
Her third event at the London Games was the 400-meter freestyle. She held the world’s best time in the event the previous two years.years later. “Nobody is going to touch me. I was strong and healthy.” “So life goes on. Find something else and get happy,” she said. “Whoever has a perfect life from the beginning to the end?”
After the German surrender in 1945, her family began to resume a normal life. Greta’s father thought she should learn how to swim. She was terrified. He took her to a local pool and pushed her in. The water was cold. Ms. Andersen was barely able to dog-paddle across. In the 1950s, Ms. Andersen moved to the Long Beach area in Southern California after honeymooning there with her first husband, Helge Jeppesen. She became a naturalized citizen and quickly took up marathon swimming, sometimes logging more than 800 miles a year.
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