Clock calls dead heat at Dwight Crum pier-to-pier swim
More than 1,000 swimmers competed in the two-mile Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim. Photo by Ken Pagliaro (www.kenpagliaro.com) At the end of the two-mile Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier race, the first two swimmers finish in a dead heat, according to the clock “Wow, this is a dogfight!” an anxious spectator screamed as frontrunners David Schlesinger and Dawn Heckman emerged from the water at the same time and sprinted up the beach toward the finish line in the Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim on Sunday morning. According to the timing chips around their ankles, the two crossed the finish line in a dead heat, with identical times of 39 minutes and 38 seconds. But Heckman readily conceded that her former University of Florida teammate finished a step ahead of her. “Dawn exited the water closer to the finish line funnel, but David had longer legs,” said race director Gary Crum. The 1,106 registrants, ranging in age from 10 to 81, were the most ever in the International Surf Festival swim’s 51-year history. The race starts on the beach south of the Hermosa Beach pier and ends on the beach north of the Manhattan Beach pier. Swimmers hailed from as far as Arkansas and as close as the Hermosa Beach…
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