Iran's top female free water swimmer Elham Asghari set a new Guinness record, getting her name in the famous Guinness world record book for the fourth time.






The endurance swimmer set her fourth record by pulling a kayak weighing 15 kilograms, with a 40kg weight being inside.

It took an hour and 58 minutes for Asghari to swim 5 kilometers pulling the kayak and the weight inside it in the Persian Gulf waters.

By doing so, she broke the record previously set by British swimmer Nick Watson. He had swum 5 km pulling a kayak with his son in it within 2 hours and 42 minutes in November 2019.

Asghari had received her second Guinness World Record Certificate in Dubai a while ago after registering her 5,500 meters swimming both in the Caspian Sea and at a swimming pool in Tehran.

She swam all these distances in Muslim Costume Swimwear Islamic Hijab Modest Swimsuit for Women. “I´ve been able to set that record with full clothes on that means i have tolerated 6 kgs overweight,” she told IRNA.

Back in 2017, the 36-year-old Iranian sportswoman recently completed the challenge of swimming handcuffed for more than three hours non-stop in the Persian Gulf waters off the coast of the southwestern port city of Bushehr, located 1,050 kilometers (652 miles) south of the capital Tehran.