Udupi: The famous swimmer Gangadhar G Kadekar Swam 3.550km in 5 hours 35 minutes from Malpe Padukere in Karnataka Udupi, with his legs and hands were shackled, to enter the Gold Book of Records World on Monday.
After achieving the achievement, he told reporters that he swam like dolphins but had to struggle a lot because the sea was more harsh than expected.
Gangadhar entered the sea at 7:50 a.m.
and finished his achievements at 1.25 a.m.
Manish Vishnoi, Adjudicator from the Golden Book of World Records from Indore, attended to record the session and then stated the note and submitted a temporary certificate.
Kadekar, 66, a former employee of the Regional Transportation Office, has succeeded in reaching Indian notebooks by swimming 1.4 km in 73.7 minutes by chopping his legs in the ‘Padmasana’ pose in the sea, in Pasukare in the Udupi last year.
He took a swim at the age of 50 after his worries of many young people sank at sea.
He had trained the young man for the past two years under the Jai Durga swimming club.
He has won several medals in state and national swimming competitions for Masters.
He pocketed the Karnataka RajyotsaVA level of the Udupi level last year.