Atlantic City Around the Island Marathon Swim

Past Standings

 

 

1953

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Ed Solitaire USA 14 hrs $300
2 Ed Stetser USA 15 hrs $300

 

 

1954

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Tom Park USA 9:21:42 $5000
2 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 9:25:10 -
3 Steve Wozniak USA 9:51:35 -
4 Roland Aronovitz USA 9:52:00 -
5 Herbert J. Simon USA 10:05:30 -
6 Charles F. Grover USA 10:06:15 -
7 Marilyn Bell Canada 10:07:02 -
8 Don Sabath USA 10:15:00 -
9 Baptista Periera Portugal 10:16:10 -
10 William Goll USA 10:23:04 -
11 Bill Sadio USA 10:35:40 -
12 Donald M. DeForrest USA 10:37:30 -

 

1955

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Tom Park USA 9:49:30 -
2 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 9:56:25 -
3 Steve Wozniak USA 10:21:30 -
4 Hamad Mustafa Egypt 10:23:25 -
5 John Lacoursiere Canada 10:36:15 -
6 Don Sabath USA 10:44:16 -
7 Herb Simon USA 10:46:50 -
8 William Goll USA 11:10:45 -
9 Nelson Quiroz Argentina 11:26:10 -
10 Raymond Boraiko USA 11:34:05 -
11 Lies Put Jamnicky Canada 11:42:45 -
12 Heldga Weiss Germany 11:44:30 -

 

1956

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 9:51:00 -
2 Tom Park USA 9:51:00.2 -
3 Steve Wozniak USA 10:06:30 -
4 Greta Anderson Denmark 10:17:00 -
5 Don Sabath USA 10:26:00 -
6 William Goll USA 10:31:45 -
7 Muriel Furgeson Canada 11:06:30 -
8 Lies Jamnicky Canada 11:18:30 -
9 Vivian Thompson Canada 11:49:00 -
10 Willie Tremblay Canada 11:52:00 -
11 Greta Patterson USA 12:15:00 -

 

1957

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Alfredo Camerero Argentina 12:17:00 $5400
2 Tom Park USA 12:25:00 $2000
3 Greta Anderson Denmark 12:36:00 $3500
4 Don Sabath USA 12:40:00 $700
5 Helge Jensen Denmark 12:56:00 $500
6 Gene Perle USA 13:02:00 $200
7 Paul Herron USA 13:06:00 $100
8 William Goll USA 13:09:00 $100
9 Muriel Furgeson Canada 13:32:00 $1100
10 Charles Grover USA - $100
      TOTAL $13,700

 

1958

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Tom Park USA 11:52:45 $5300
2 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 12:09:00 $1600
3 Greta Anderson Denmark 12:15:30 $2000
4 Tonatiuh Gutierrez Mexico 12:41:15 $500
5 Helge Jensen Denmark 12:47:05 $300
6 Don Sabath USA 13:05:25 $200
7 Joan Florentin USA 13:14:00 $700
8 Gene Perle USA 13:16:30 $50
9 Aloma Keen, 16 Canada 13:59:45 $300
10 Paul Heron USA 14:21:12 $0
      TOTAL $10,950

 

1959

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 10:54:05 -
2 Tom Park USA 11:00:15 -
3 Greta Anderson Denmark 11:07:25 -
4 Helge Jensen Denmark 11:31:15 -
5 John Lacoursiere Canada 11:41:37 -
6 James Lavell USA 11:51:25 -
7 Don Sabath USA 12:13:25 -
8 Myra Thompson USA 12:25:20 -
9 William Goll USA 12:36:32 -
10 Dr. Wilfred Slater USA 12:58:57 -
11 Joan Florentin USA 13:11:30 -
 Note: course was counter-clockwise (reverse)

 

1960

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Herman Willemse Holland 10:30:05 -
2* Cliff Lumsdon Canada 10:40:07 -
3* Tom Park USA 10:40:07 -
4 John Lacoursiere Canada 10:57:19 -
5 Jorge Mezzadra Argentina 10:59:30 -
6 Carlos Larriera Argentina 11:08:25 -
7 Syder Guiscardo Argentina 11:26:30 -
8 Mary Kok Holland 11:31:24 -
9 Niko Nestor Yugoslavia 11:40:27 -
10 Don Sabath USA 11:52:21 -
11 Myra Thompson USA 13:18:12  
12 Carol Ann Chaplin USA 14:11:10

-

* TIE

 

1961

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Herman Willemse Holland 11:14:45 -
2 Greta Anderson Denmark 11:35:50 -
3 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 11:36:35 -
4 John Lacoursiere Canada 11:39:20 -
5 Tom Park USA 11:49:10 -
6 Mary Kok Holland 12:13:05 -
7 Syder Guiscardo Argentina 12:15:45 -
8 Don Sabath USA 12:49:30 -
9 Benson Huggard USA 13:16:55 -
10 Aloma Keen Canada 13:17:45 -
11 Carol Ann Chaplin USA 13:49:45  

 

1962

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Herman Willemse Holland 11:35:45 -
2 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 12:01:10 -
3 Tom Park USA 12:11:00 -
4 John Lacoursiere Canada 12:12:15 -
5 Greta Anderson Denmark 12:57:16 -
6 Carlos Larriera Argentina 13:11:39 -
7 Helge Jensen Denmark 14:00:00 -
8 Jacques Amyot Canada 14:30:00 -

 

1963

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Herman Willemse Holland 10:31:15 -
2 Abdellatif Abouheif Egypt 12:07:31 -
3 John Lacoursiere Canada 12:13:15 -
4 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 12;13:16 -
5 Greta Anderson Denmark 12;14:05 -
6 Marty Sinn USA 12:21:32 -
7 Alfredo Camerero Argentina 13:26:08 -

 

 1964

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Herman Willemse Holland 10:08:15 $5000
2 Abdellatif Abouheif Egypt 10:31:23 $2000
3 John Lacoursiere Canada 10:31:23.2 $1000
4 Cliff Lumsdon Canada 10:32:50 $800
5 Jorge Mezzadra Argentina 10:34:01 $500
6 Dicki Bojadzi Yugoslavia 10:35:45 $300
7 Marty Sinn USA 10:37:15 $200($800 bonus)
8 Roberto Reta Argentina 10:44:38 -
9 Sayed El Gelil Egypt 10:53:09 -
10 Kurt Pluntke Canada 11:04:02 -
11 George Park Canada 11:24:15 -
12 Hedyy Schmidt Canada 12:25:00 $400

Taken from the water at finish: Wendy Birch, USA; Fausto Ramirez, Mexico; Bill Stevens, USA. Dropouts: Greta Anderson, USA; Mohammed Zaitoon, Egypt; Don Sabath, USA; Carlos Larriera, Argentina

This event in Atlantic City was not held between 1965 and 1977

1978 (local lifeguards only race)

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Steve (Sid) Cassidy OCBP USA 9:36:24 $1000
2 Mike Toy ACBP USA 10:09:45 -
3 Bill Howarth VCBP USA 10:17:59 -
4 John Friehofer ACBP USA 10:37:10 -
5 Brendan Bradley MCBP USA 10:44:00 -
  John Sless ACBP USA DNF -

OCBP= Ocean City Beach Patrol    ACBP=Atlantic City Beach Patrol

VCBP=Ventnor City Beach Patrol    MCBP=Margate City Beach Patrol

 

 1979

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Jim Barry Alameda, CA, USA 7:18:36 $3000
Sponsored by Ritz Casino
2 Steve Cassidy Ocean City, NJ, USA 7:18:40 $2500
Sponsored by Resorts-International Hotel-Casino
3 John Kinsella Hillsdale, Ill, USA 7:23:37 $1500
Sponsored by Guarantee Bank
4 Claudio Plit Argentina 7:25:42 $1000
Sponsored by Bally Corp.
5 Juan Carlos Mexico 7:32:36 $800
Sponsored by Kindle Lincoln-Mercury
6 Bill Heiss Laramie, WY, USA 7:35:30 $700
Sponsored by Calvi Electric- Bayly, Martin, Fay, Inc.
7 Penny Dean Santa Clara, CA, USA 7:49:25 $600
Sponsored by Resorts-International Hotel-Casino
8 Jorge Villegas Mexico 7:51:45 $500
Sponsored by Kramer Beverage
9 Magdy Mandour Egypt 8:05:17* $350
Sponsored by First National Bank
9 Nassar Shazly Egypt 8:05:17* $350
Sponsored by Benihana
11 Paul Rudyitis Ocean City, NJ, USA 8:09:51 $200
Sponsored by Resorts-International Hotel-Casino
12 Lauren Passfield Canada 8:09:56 $200
Sponsored by Melody Lounge
13 Jim Whelan Atlantic City, NJ, USA 8:10:08 $200
Sponsored by Resorts-International Hotel-Casino
14 Norm Hosia Egypt 8:22:33 $200
Sponsored by Atlantic National Bank
15 Christine Cosmette Canada 8:29:42 $200
Sponsored by Margate Log Cabin
16 Bill Howarth Ventnor, NJ, USA 8:38:51 $200
Sponsored by Resorts-International Hotel-Casino
17 Cecella McClosky Longport, NJ, USA 8:43:12 $200
Sponsored by Resorts-International Squash & Racquets Club
18 Ossama Rachad Egypt 8:48:21 $200
Sponsored by Boardwalk Regency
19 Mohamed Qamie Canada no time $200
Sponsored by Strotback's Bay Club
20 John Freihofer Atlantic City, NJ, USA no time $200
Sponsored by Atlantic City Neptune Reality
20 Marla Feldman Evanston, Ill, USA no time $100
Sponsored by Ventnor City, Margate City, Longport Borough

DNF: Charles Draper, Atlantic City;   Steve Wozniak, Buffalo, NY

* Tie

 

1980

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Paul Asmuth USA ?  
2 James Kegley USA    
? Claudio Plit Argentina    

 

1981

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Paul Asmuth USA ?  
? Claudio Plit Argentina    

 

1982

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Paul Asmuth USA ?  
? Claudio Plit Argentina    

 

 

1983

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Paul Asmuth USA ?  
? Claudio Plit Argentina    

 

 

1984

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Paul Asmuth USA ?  
? Claudio Plit Argentina    

 

 

1985

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Paul Asmuth USA ?  
? Claudio Plit Argentina    

 

(No race held in 1986)

 

1987

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Paul Asmuth USA ?  
? Claudio Plit Argentina    

 

 

1991

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1st Shelley Taylor Smith Australia 7:12:34 New record for both men & women
2

Jay Wilkerson

USA 7:13:33 3  
3 Diego Degano Argentina ?  
4 James Kegley USA ?  
5 Paul Asmuth USA ?  

 

 

1992

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Shelley Taylor Smith Australia 7:00:51 New record for both men & women
2 Diego Degano Argentina 7:02:51  
3 Jay Wilkerson USA ?  
4 David O'Brien Australia ?  
5 Paul Asmuth USA ?  

 

 

 

1993

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Chad Hundeby USA 7:13:32  
2 Diego Degano Argentina 7:19:04  
3 Shelley Taylor Smith Australia 7:19.15  
4 Attila Molnar Hungary 7:26:52  
5 Karen Burton USA 7:36:50  
6 Kim Dyke Canada 7:36:51  
? Yuko Matsuzaki Japan 9:13:00  

 

 

1994

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1

Diego DeGano

Argentina 8:43:38  
The water was very cold this year.

 

1995

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Atilla Molnar Hungary  
2 Chris Derks USA  
? Yuko Matsuzaki Japan 9:26:00  
         

 

 

1996

Place Name (Men) Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Stephan Lecat France 6:59:15 RECORD TIME
2 Atilla Molnar Hungary    
3 Michael Drozd Czech Republic    
? Fernando Terrilli Argentina    
? Gabriel Chaillou Argentina    
? Jean-Francois Roussy Canada    
? Christoff Wandratsh Germany    
? Claudio Plit Argentina    
Place Name (Women) Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Samantha Chabotar Egg Harbor Twp, USA    
2 Lisa Hazen USA    
? Katrina Lammers Germany    
? Peggy Busche Germany    
? Rita Kovacs Hungary    
? Yuko Matsuzaki Japan    

 

 

1997

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Christoff Wandratsh Germany 9:29:12 -
2 Gabriel Chaillou Argentina 9:47:03 -
3 Michael Drozd Czech Republic 9:55:21 -
4 Atilla Molnar Hungary 10:04:22 -
5 Peggy Busche Germany 10:31:44 -
6 Mohamed Marouf Egypt 10:37:43 -
7 Karen Burton USA 10:39:25 -
8 Rob Montgomery USA 10:40:30 -
9 Khaled M. El Saidy Egypt 10:47:41 -
10 Lisa Hazen USA 11:14:13 -
11 Jean-Francois Roussy Canada 11:26:57 -
12 Katrina Lammers Germany 11:40:37 -
13 Nadia Bolduc Canada 11:41:06 -
14 Teodora Raptis Macedonia 11:44:09 -
15 Claudio Plit Argentina 11:46:56 -
16 Igor De Souza Brazil 11:50:19 -
17 Ahmed Abdalla Egypt 11:57:10 -
  Rita Kovacs Hungary DNF  
  Veerabadran Kutraleeshwaran India DNF  
  Sebastian Bolduc Canada DNF  
  Yuko Matsuzaki Japan DNF  
  Iren Van der Laan Netherlands DNF  
  Hossam Salah El Din Egypt DNF  
  Fernando Terillio Argentina DNF  
  Maria Moreno Argentina DNF  
DNF = Did Not Finish

First Swimmer to Showboat Casino: $500 (Showboat Casino)

First Swimmer to Longport Jetty: $300 (Gail Otten)

Daniels famil award: $150 first swimmer; $150 last swimmer

First Swimmer to Longport Bridge: $250 (Cape Savings Bank)

Last female to pass Margate Yacht Club: $100

Paparone family award: $150 first female; $150 first male

Dorsett Ave Bridge: $250 first female; $250 first male (Ventnor City)

Albany Ave. Bridge: $250 first swimmer (Mike Goloff, CPA)

Absecon Boulevard: $250 first female; $250 first male (Atlantic County Utilities Authority)

Brigantine Bridge: $500 first female (Kline Construction)

Last Finisher: $200 (Kooperman family)

 

1998

Place Name Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Peggy Büchse Germany  
? Yuko Matsuzaki Japan 12:10:00  

 

1999

Place Name (Men) Nationality Time Prize Money
1 David Meca Spain 6:56:43 -
2 Andre Wilde Germany 7:02:31 -
3 Igor Majcen Slovenia 7:07:24 -
4 Gabe Lindsey  United States of America 7:23:31 -
5 Petar Stoytchev  Bulgaria 7:28:29 -
6 Gabriel Chaillou Argentina 7:30:09 -
7 Stephane Gomez  France 7:33:58 -
8 Mohamed Marouf  Egypt 8:00:09 -
9 Diego Lopez Argentina 8:20:19 -
10 Claudio Plit Argentina 8:32:07 -
Place Name (Women) Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Peggy Büchse Germany 7:33:58 -
2 Edith Van Dijk Netherlands 7:35:54 -
3 Britta Kamrau Germany 7:37:15 -
4 Karen Burton United States of America 7:56:54 -
5 Samantha Chabotar United States of America 7:58:01 -
6 Morgan Filler United States of America 8:13:25 -
7 Janaina Soares Brazil 8:23:21 -
8 Irene Van Der Laan Netherlands 8:39:02 -
9 Kathrin Lammers Germany 8:46:23 -
10 Nadia Bolduc Canada 8:52:41  
11 Yuko Matsuzaki Japan 9:14:37 -

 

 2000

Place Name (Men) Nationality Time Prize Money
1 David Meca-Medina Barcelona, Spain 7:40:15 -
2 Stephane Lecat Paris, France 8:04:17 -
3 Andre Wilde Rostock, Germany 8:04:32 -
4 Gabriel Chaillou Buenos Aires, Argentina 8:04:52 -
5 Gabe Lindsey Athens, Ga., USA 8:06:32 -
6 Liam Weseloh Toronto, Canada 8:07:38 -
7 Sean Brennan Forked River, N.J., USA 8:15:32 -
8 Petar Stoychev Sofia, Bulgaria 8:21:35 -
9 John Kenny Horsham, Pa., USA 8:22:02 -
10 Fernando Flietas Santa Fe, Argentina 8:24:14 -
11 Nace Majcen Ljublina, Slovenia 8:30:31 -
12 Stephen Cresswell Sydney, Australia 9:10:19 -
13 Claudio Plit Mar Del Plata, Argentina 10:14:15 -
Place Name (Women) Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Regan Scheiber Mukilteo, Wash., USA 8:10:31 -
2 Angela Maurer Wiesbaden, Germany 8:11:01 -
3 Peggy Buchse Rostock, Germany 8:20:37 -
4 Samantha Chabotar Egg Harbor Township, NJ,USA 8:22:57 -
5 Britta Kamrau Rostock, Germany 8:27:39 -
6 Rose Rice Washington, D.C., USA 8:52:03 -
7 Karen Burton-Reeder Colorado Springs, Colo., USA 8:53:59 -
8 Shelley Clark Sydney, Australia 9:16:10 -
9 Morgan Filler Seattle, Wash., USA 9:22:00 -
10 Janaina Soares Sau Paulo, Brazil 9:38:42 -

Did Not Finish: Eva Novakova, Prague, Czech Republic; Edith Van Dijk, Wognum, Netherlands; Andres Perez-Gonzalez, Havana, Cuba; Carlos Scanavino, Maldonado, Uruguay; Christof Wandratch, Burghausen, Germany

 

 2001

Place Name (Men) Nationality Time

Prize Money

1 Stephane Lecat France 6.54:00 NEW COURSE RECORD*
2 Mark Leonard USA 6.58:23 3RD FASTEST TIME
3 Gabriel Chaillou Argentina 7.01:58 -
4 Fabio Fusi Italy 7.10:00 -
5 John Kenny USA 7.18:04 -
6 Stephane Gomez France 7.21:21 -
7 Andre Wilde Germany 7.27:06 -
8 Josh Santacaterina Australia 7.32:09 -
9 Claudio Plit Argentina 9.51:14 -
Place Name (Women) Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Britta Kamrau Germany 7.35:28 -
2 Shelley Clark Australia 7.55:08 -
3 Maria Celeste Punet Argentina 8.11:31 -
4 Morgan Filler USA 8.46:30 -
5 Laura Bastiani Argentina 8.52:47 -
6 Tiffany Sawin USA 8.01:05 -

Did Not Finish: Melissa Doyle, CAN; Facundo Quiroga, ARG; Petar Stoychev, BUL     

* Note: course was counter-clockwise (reverse)

 

 2002

Place Name (Men) Nationality Time Prize Money
1 Igor Majcen Slovenia 7:18:24 $4500
2 John Kenny USA 7:23:33 $2500
3 Rafael Perez Argentina 8:04:50 $1500
4 Enrique Ivan Alvarado Mexico 8:35:57 $1000
Place Name (Women) Nationality Time Prize Money
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