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
|
467.834km | 121h 59m 43s | 72% |
| 2 |
 Hildi Mitchell
|
406.1km | 136h 21m 17s | 63% |
| 3 |
 Peyton Vellaa
|
347km | 101h 47m 38s | 53% |
| 4 |
 Eilish Dawson
|
315.675km | 104h 27m | 49% |
| 5 |
 Alice Harvey
|
311.284km | 85h 1m 5s | 48% |
| 6 |
 Ben Fearnside
|
290.93km | 104h 35m 43s | 45% |
| 7 |
 Alli Harmer Williams
|
209.43km | 78h 59m 38s | 32% |
| 8 |
 Colleen Colver
|
205.624km | 76h 44m 18s | 31% |
| 9 |
 Stuart Klein
|
177.198km | 60h 13m 1s | 27% |
| 10 |
 David Bailey
|
171.385km | 54h 5m 58s | 26% |