Winter Swim Challenge 2024
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Need some motivation to help you swim through the Winter months – introducing the Winter Swim Challenge!
We’ve curated an exciting set of challenges with distances designed to test your endurance and celebrate your achievements. Log your swims on our website to earn and share digital swim badges designed by local artist Dave Pop Art.
Complete one or all of the five challenges between 1 November 2024 and 28 February 2025:
5 Pier Challenge – 5K (100 lengths)
Windfarm to Brighton – 15K (299 lengths)
Dover to Calais – 33K (656 lengths)
London to Brighton – 85K (1722 lengths)
The South Coast Swim (Dover to Penzance) – 643K (12,800 lengths)
The challenge is free and open to all swimmers from dippers and heads up breast strokers to open water enthusiasts and triathletes. At the end of the challenge, you will also have the option to buy physical versions of the swim badges to commemorate your accomplishment. You’re going to want to see these badges so get swimming.
Distance guide for the Sea Lanes 50M Pool to help log your swims:
L = Lengths, M = Meters, KM = Kilometres
6 L = 300 M
10 L = 500 M
20 L = 1000 M / 1KM
30 L = 1500 M / 1.5KM
40 L – 2000 M / 2KM
50 L – 2500 M / 2.5KM
60 L – 3000 M / 3KM
80 L – 4000 M / 4KM
100 L – 5000 M / 5KM
Leaderboard
| Rank | Swimmer | Distance | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Andy Tester
|
237.859km | 62h 12m 37s | 36% |
| 2 |
 Hildi Mitchell
|
181.4km | 61h 24m 51s | 28% |
| 3 |
 Ben Fearnside
|
133.143km | 50h 9m 53s | 20% |
| 4 |
 Eilish Dawson
|
130.775km | 43h 6m | 20% |
| 5 |
 Alice Harvey
|
121.785km | 32h 27m 21s | 18% |
| 6 |
 Peyton Vellaa
|
98.8km | 36h 23m | 15% |
| 7 |
 Colleen Colver
|
96.024km | 37h 5m 24s | 14% |
| 8 |
 Faye Shippam
|
94.134km | 33h | 14% |
| 9 |
 James Longstaff
|
80.5km | 27h 31m 53s | 12% |
| 10 |
 Stuart Klein
|
75km | 25h 30m 53s | 11% |