>Woman 1st to swim Atlantic

老妇人横渡大西洋(图)

Jennifer Figge (see photo), a 56-year-old American athlete, has become the 1st woman on record to swim the Atlantica recently - a dream she'd had since she was a little girl. Battling waves of up to 9m, she took 24 days to swim from the Cape Verde islands off Africa to Trinidad. Each day the swimmer would spend up to 8 hours in the water before returning to her support boat.

近日，56岁的美国健儿詹妮弗·菲格(见图)费时24天，游泳横渡大西洋，成为世界上第一位完成这一壮举的女性，一圆儿时梦想。她在南非佛得角下水，顶着9米高的巨浪，游向特立尼达岛。她每天要在水中游8个小时才上船补充体力。

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