Kanpur’s 11-year-old girl sets off to swim from Kanpur to Banaras

Kanpur, Aug 29 (ANI): 11-year-old swimmer from Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur city Shraddha Shukla took up her biggest challenge of swimming in the monsoon-fed, swollen Ganga from hometown Kanpur to temple town Banaras on Sunday. She will cover 570km in seven days, with refreshment and breaks, which is equivalent of 13 Olympic marathons of 42.195km on land. Shradha is swimming since the age of one, under the guidance of father-coach Lalit Shukla.

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