Trent Grimsey breaks English channel swim record

Trent Grimsey breaks English channel swim record

Trent Grimsey, FINA’s top ranked Open Water swimmer, has broken the record for an unassisted solo crossing of the English Channel by a massive 2 minutes and fifty seconds. The Queenslander began his 34km marathon at Dover in southern England at approximately 9:30am local time Saturday (1830 AEST) and arrived at Cap-Gris-Nez, France in a time of 6 hours 55 minutes flat, breaking Bulgarian Petar Stoychev’s record of 6hr 57min 50secs. Read for instance The Sydney Morning Herald

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