Bristol Channel Penarth - Clevedon — United Kingdom

Clevedon - Penarth

22.3 km
Distance
Penarth ↔ Clevedon
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
    5:35:22 · Aug 26, 2007 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    5:56:21 · Jul 4, 2021 · 2 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    5:58:03 · Aug 16, 2017 · 3 in Skin · Solo

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Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Gary CarpenterAug 26, 20075:35:22
2Andrew Robert WolfJul 4, 20215:56:21
3Alec RichardsonAug 16, 20175:58:03
—Stephen Price1990—documented

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.