Long Distance Swimmers

Swimming in the lake in Hyde Park is not the only place Serpentine members swim! Long distance, open water swimming is another passion at the Serpentine, with the club boasting a plethora of relay and solo English Channel swimmers amongst its members.

The English Channel is not the only long distance swim to tackle. Serpentine members have dipped their toes in many international waters. A small example of such swims include:

• Escape from Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
• Golden Gate Bridge Swim, San Francisco, USA
• Catalina Channel, Los Angeles, USA
• Maui to Lanai Channel, Hawaii, USA
• Robben Island Swim, Cape Town, South Africa
• River Nene swim, Cambridgeshire, UK
• Manhattan Island Swim, New York, USA
• Straits of Gibraltar, Spain
• Lake Zurich, Switzerland
• Lake Annecy, France
• Cook Straits, New Zealand 

All through the year there are members training for their first or next long distance open water swim. If long distance swimming is something that you are interested in, come down to the Serpentine (Especially on a Saturday morning from 8am onwards) to meet the huge number of members who have given it a go! We have advice, stories, tips and hints galore. Just be prepared to listen to a lot of overexcited open water swimmers telling you their experience from their swims

To make you familiar with the members who have completed English Channel solos swims, here are some mugshots!

Solo Swimmers
1961+ Rose George
1968+ Kevin Murphy 
1993+ Nick Adams
2002 Anna McClarnon
2005 Anna Hillyer
2005 Sakura Hingley
2005 Mark Rosenburg
2005 Will Ferguson
2005 James Scott
2007 Conor Rowley
2007 Andy Pfaff 
2008 Pim Kalisvaart
2008 Alice Constance
2009 Sophie Rutenbar
2009+ Boris Mavra
2009 Alison Lievesley 
2010 Luke Birch
2010 Trevor Gaunt
2010 John Whitaker 
2010 Sam Vincent
2010 Tullio Salvatore 
2010 Doug Wright 
2010 Guy Moar
2010 David Orders
2011 Scott Stanley
2011 Angela Lurssen 

 

Long Distance Swimmers gallery