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English Channel swim record targeted by UK Olympians

A group of Olympic swimmers are hoping to break the record for swimming the English Channel in a relay.

The record for the 33 km (20.5 miles) swim from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez in France currently stands at six hours and 52 minutes, set by the United States National Swimming Team in 1990.

The British swimmers will make their attempt between 15 and 25 September depending on the weather, and will raise money for the charity Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS).

The team is triple Olympic gold medallist Tom Dean and his fellow freestyler Daniel Jervis, open water specialists George Taplin, Tobias Robinson and double Olympic champion Hector Pardoe, and British champion Joshua Gammon.

“The record’s stood for 36 years for a reason, it is really fast, but I think it’s about time we took the record back into British hands,” Dean told the BBC.

“You need so many factors to line up perfectly, you need six really strong athletes, you need perfect weather conditions, a lot of things have to go right.”


BBC News

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