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MEXMexicoSport:SwimmingMariel Hawley is a Mexican marathon swimmer, lawyer, author and speaker whose sporting projects have also supported children’s medical care. In her first-person account, she describes discovering sea swimming as a child while visiting Acapulco with her grandparents. She competed in pools as she grew up and returned to sustained open-water training after becoming a mother. A five-kilometre event in 2001 encouraged her to seek longer swims.
Her early English Channel experience came with Sport City Mexico, a six-person team that completed four consecutive crossings. That relay encouraged her to pursue a solo. On 12 August 2011 she completed the England-to-France crossing in a published 14 hours 33 minutes, accompanied by Mike Oram aboard Gallivant. Dover’s individual account places her landing at Sangatte. Together with Manhattan and Catalina swims, this completed her Triple Crown programme in 2012.
Hawley went on to complete the Oceans Seven in March 2019. Her professional biography identifies a law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana and the books Días Azules and Corazón de Mar. Through the Quiero Sonreír project, she has connected swimming with support for children needing cleft-lip and palate surgery or cancer treatment. Her public speaking brings together these experiences of sport, family life and work for others, giving her profile a scope beyond crossing times alone.
Mexican Channel solo swimmer and Sport City Mexico relay member
Also recorded as Mariel Hawley Davila.
Crossing details, recordings & verificationSolo swim
Friday, 12 August 2011 (recorded swim date)
England → France
Elapsed time · 14h 33m 0s
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Relay · team performance
Sunday, 26 August 2007 (recorded swim date)
England → France → England → France → England
Six-person four-way relay. Registers give 2007; a later recollection says 2006. Published date spans and clocks also conflict.
Sport City Mexico · Luis Pineyro · Omar Diaz Gonzalez · Alejandro Moreno · Mayalen Noriega · Jorge Urreta · Mariel Hawley
Team elapsed time · 42h 11m 0s
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2001
Her first-person account describes a five-kilometre event that encouraged longer swims.
2007
Federation records a four-way team swim; the date conflict is retained in its evidence.
2009
Completed the Manhattan component of her later Triple Crown.
Friday, 12 August 2011
Completed the England-to-France crossing.
2012
Catalina completed her three-swim programme.
Saturday, 30 March 2019
Her first-person account dates the concluding Cook Strait swim to this day.
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