Bristol Channel Glenthorne Cove - Porthcawl — United Kingdom

Glenthorne - Porthcawl

27.4 km
Distance
Glenthorne Cove ↔ Porthcawl Beach
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Crossings marked «documented» are historical: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones.

Traditional knitted textile swimsuit, cap and goggles: no wetsuit and no tech suit; no contact with the boat and no drafting behind it.

Podium · Skin · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    11:01:30 · Aug 1979 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    Kaye Daniels🇬🇧
    11:24:10 · Jul 1982 · 2 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    Lee Johnson🇬🇧
    11:43:36 · Jun 22, 2022 · 3 in Skin · Solo

6 of 12

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Jeffrey LloydAug 197911:01:30documented
2Kaye DanielsJul 198211:24:10documented
3Lee JohnsonJun 22, 202211:43:36
4Sarah Elizabeth PhilpottJun 22, 202212:21:24
5D.I. JonesAug 197713:01:30documented
6Kevin Murphy197115:00:35documented

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.