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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