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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Jiya Rai. Jiya Rai has become the youngest and fastest female swimmer in the world to swim across the Palk Strait from Talaimannar (Sri Lanka) to Dhanuskodi (India). She covered a distance of 29 km, in 13 hours and 10 minutes on 20 March 2022.

Detailed explanation-2: -Palk Strait expedition However exactly a year later, Shyamala began her second attempt of swimming across the Palk Strait with the support of Indian High Commissioner and Sri Lanka High Commissioner.

Detailed explanation-3: -Richa Mishra holds five women’s individual national records, the most by any Indian swimmer.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mihir Sen swam across the 23-km-long Palk Strait, a narrow passage of water between Tamil Nadu and the Jaffna District of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, on this day in 1966. A few years before that, he became the first Asian to swim across the English Channel from Dover to Calais in the year 1958.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ledecky is the world record holder in the women’s 800- and 1500-meter freestyle (both long course and short course) as well as the former world record holder in the women’s 400-meter freestyle (long course). She also holds the fastest-ever times in the women’s 500-, 1000-, and 1650-yard freestyle events.