Andy’s Channel Ladies Relay Smash Record In Channel Swim

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The relay team of Andy’s Channel Ladies has smashed the current relay record for a three-way crossing of the English Channel, recently completing the swim in 31 hours and 20 minutes.

The team consisted of six women: Dee Llewellyn-Hodgson (35), Nikki Fraser (24), Jane McCormick (35), Lucy Lloyd-Roach (33), Emma Ross (30), and Natalie Massey (28). This swim comes 13 years after Llewellyn-Hodgson’s last record breaking Channel swim with the Julie Bradshaw’s Ladies Relay, the very record her new team just broke.

Each swimmer swam for one hour, giving them a five hour break between swims, and while most took the opportunity to sleep Llewellyn-Hodgson took the opportunity to pump and refrigerate milk to bring back to her five-month old son, Rhys. In an article that appeared in the The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, the 35-year-old mother notes that she may be the first Channel swimmer to used her relay leg break to pump breast milk.

In the same article the Channel Swimming Association (CSA) notes that the record is significant and that is it highly unlikely to be broken by the end of the official season in October. The record is also notable for being faster than the current men’s three-way crossing record, setting the bar high for male teams in the upcoming season.

You can read the full article from the The Huddersfield Daily Examiner here.

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Carol Cashell

6 years ago

Andy King