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Bristol Channel Penarth - Clevedon — United Kingdom

Clevedon - Penarth

22.3 km
Distance
Penarth ↔ Clevedon
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Timeline

Computed from the recorded crossings: the first, the first by sex, the first from each country and every record broken.

  1. 1990
    First crossingStephen Price
  2. 1990
    First from countryStephen Price🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  3. Aug 26, 2007
    RecordGary CarpenterSkin · Solo · 5:35:22
  4. Aug 16, 2017
    RecordAlec RichardsonWetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo · 5:58:03

Crossings per decade

241990200020102020

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: British Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.