{"id":36572,"date":"2025-11-06T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/36572\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:56:08","slug":"swimmer-diana-nyad-honored-with-florida-state-historic-marker-in-fort-lauderdale-for-2013-swim-from-cuba-to-key-west-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/36572\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmer Diana Nyad honored with Florida State Historic Marker in Fort Lauderdale for 2013 swim from Cuba to Key West &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; After more than a decade since a world-renowned endurance swimmer made the long swim from Cuba to Key West, the epic milestone is being honored.<\/p>\n<p>City of Fort Lauderdale officials unveiled a Florida State Historic Marker to honor swimmer Diana Nyad to celebrate her legendary trip. <\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Nyad decided to do what seemed impossible: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/cuba-gives-us-swimmer-diana-nyad-sporting-medal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">swim 111-miles from Havana to Key West. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time she was 64 years old and it took her nearly 53 hours to swim the distance. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/florida\/diana-nyad-marks-anniversary-of-epic-cuba-florida-swim-freeing-rehabilitated-sea-turtle-in-the-keys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nyad<\/a> said she was honored to receive the award. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing, honestly to receive awards and then to be in your hometown and receive this award. I\u2019m saying that it touches me deeply,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Nyad\u2019s first attempt at crossing the [Florida] Straits was back in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; After more than a decade since a world-renowned endurance swimmer made the long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-36572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}