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Who were the other two people known to have completed the Florida Straits crossing before Diana Nyad?

  • Walter Poenisch and Susie Maroney

  • Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky

  • Ian Thorpe and Rebecca Adlington

  • Mark Spitz and Janet Evans

Answer

Walter Poenisch and Susie Maroney were the two other people known to have completed the Florida Straits crossing before Diana Nyad. Poenisch, a native of Austria, made the crossing in 1978, while Maroney, an American, completed the swim in 1987. Nyad, a native of New York, made the crossing in 2013, becoming the first person to do so without the use of a shark cage.
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