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
|
178.996km | 46h 57m 39s | 27% |
| 2 |
 Hildi Mitchell
|
131.78km | 43h 54m 51s | 20% |
| 3 |
 William Ellis
|
130.2km | 28h 22m 18s | 20% |
| 4 |
 Eilish Dawson
|
97.95km | 32h 8m | 15% |
| 5 |
 Alice Harvey
|
86.485km | 23h 24m 57s | 13% |
| 6 |
 Ben Fearnside
|
82.029km | 32h 44m 26s | 12% |
| 7 |
 Colleen Colver
|
76.524km | 30h 10m 24s | 11% |
| 8 |
 Peyton Vellaa
|
67.2km | 25h 13m | 10% |
| 9 |
 James Longstaff
|
62.05km | 22h 10m 19s | 9% |
| 10 |
 Stuart Klein
|
58.95km | 20h 7m 24s | 9% |