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Bula choudhury first indian woman to swim the seven seas 70 golden moments in indian sports
Bula Choudhury (Born - 2 January, 1970, Hugli, India) is an Arjuna awardee, Padma shri awardee, former India national women's swimming champion and elected as MLA from 2006 To 2011 in West Bengal state of India.
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- Bula choudhury first indian woman to swim the seven seas 70 golden moments in indian sports
- Margadarshi Bula Choudhury Swimming Champion of India
- Swimming career
- Awards and distinctions
- References
Margadarshi - Bula Choudhury (Swimming Champion of India)
Swimming career
Her first national competition, at age nine, she dominated her age group by winning six gold medals in six events. She continued to improve, winning various junior and national championships, as well as six gold medals at the 1991 South Asian Federation Games.
Choudhury started long-distance swimming in 1989 and crossed the English Channel that year. She won the 81-km (50- mile) Murshidabad Long Distance Swim in 1996, and in 1999 she crossed the English Channel again. In 2005, she became the first woman to have swum across sea channels off five continents—including the Strait of Gibraltar, the Tyrrhenian Sea, Cook Strait, Toroneos Gulf (Gulf of Kassándra) in Greece, the Catalina Channel off the California coast, and from Three Anchor Bay to Robben Island near Cape Town, South Africa. She is now is planning to establish a swimming academy in Kolkata.