Lynne Cox

Lynne Cox is the rare athlete whose feats read like something out of a thriller. Becoming the first person to swim the Bering Strait between the United States and the Soviet Union, in freezing open water, is staggering on its own, and the idea that it helped ease Cold War tensions between Reagan and Gorbachev gives it a weight most sports stories never reach. I admire that she didn't stop at the swimming; she became a writer and speaker, turning physical endurance into stories worth reading. Born in 1957, she strikes me as someone who understood that crossing water could mean crossing more than distance.

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Name (English)

Lynne Cox

Name (Japanese)

リン・コックス

Reading

りん・こっくす

Born

January 2, 1957 (age 69)

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

swimmer / writer / author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

High school

Los Alamitos High School

• Official sitehttps://www.lynnecox.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne%20Cox
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463508

Tags

• Massachusetts
• swimmer
• writer
• author

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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