Mimi Pettersen Hughes (born 1955/56) is an American long-distance swimmer who began her long-distance swims by crossing the Bering Strait. She has since swum the lengths of the rivers of Tennessee,[1] Danube, Drava, and Mura.[2] Mimi dedicates her swims to a variety of causes: understanding between nations (the Bering Strait), environmental awareness (rivers Tennessee,[3] Danube, Drava, and Mura), and lifeskills' training and education for women and girls (Ohio River, 2010).
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Born | 1955/1956 San Bernardino County, California, United States |
Home town | Taft, Tennessee, United States |
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Sport | Swimming |
Declared one of the most important women of the last 100 years by Für Sie magazine, Mimi's philosophy encourages each individual to envision change and then take action.
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- ^ riverswim.com
- ^ Tenn. mom swims European rivers from the Spartanburg Herald-Journal
- ^ Swim HSA retrieved 20th Feb 2010 Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Mimi Hughes speaks about the need to protect the Danube". WWF. 12 August 2013.
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