Channel Records
Record Person Time
Fastest Swim (mens) Petar Stoychev 06:57
Fastest Swim (womens) Yvetta Hlavacova 07:25
Fastest 2- way Swim (mens) Philip Rush 16:10
Fastest 3- way Swim (mens) Philip Rush 28:21
Fastest Backstroke Swim (mens) Haydn Welch 13:42
Fastest Breastsroke Swim (mens) Frederik Jaques 13:31
(I will be attempting to break the backstroke record)
Number of swims completed
Channel Swimming Association to 2005: 982 successful crossings by 665 people (between the 70's and late 90's more people had been in space than had swam the channel!).
