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The Oxford and Cambridge Solo Channel swimmers

Crazy enough to know better.

13 hr 18 minutes, 3/8/21

Cambridge Alumni

Pilot:- P. Reed

15 hr 15 minutes, 4/8/20

Cambridge Alumni

Pilot:- F. Mardle

10 hr 55 minutes, 21/7/18

Oxford Alumni, New College

Pilot:- F. Mardle

12 hr 12 minutes, 16/8/17

Oxford Alumni, Jesus College

Pilot:- S. Gleeson

Lennard Lee

9 hr 45 minutes, 13/7/04

A Cambridge, St John's man goes down in the record books as the first Oxbridge Undergraduate. Aged, just 21 and a second year reading medicine he succesfully completed the swim with the aid of coach Freda Streeter, Neil Streeter and Barry. Since then, he's gone on to swim a number of other long distance swims. These include, around Manhattan, Italy-Sicily, the bosphorus Race, Meis-Kas. Final notable achievements was that along with fellow athletes Nick Berry/Harry fisher, they held the GB records for crossing the Straits of Gibralter for a few years

Pilot:- N. Streeter

Naomi Vides

12 hr 0 minutes, 15/8/17

Oxbridge Alumni, Hertford College

Pilot:- M. Oram

Tom Edwards

12 hr 3 minutes, 6/8/17

Cambridge Alumni,

Pilot:- R. Bickell

Dave Denny

9 hr 16 minutes, 25/8/16

Oxford Alumni,

Accolades

- Fastest Oxbridge swimmer

Pilot:- L. Oram

Marisa Schubert

14 hr 40 minutes, 20/7/14

Marisa Schubert, former president of the Oxford swimming club spent two years gearing herself up for her 2014 attempt. She completed the swim and goes into the record books as the first Oxbridge female swimmer. A natural to open water swimmer, she can often be found swimming in the river Thames throughout the year.

Pilot:- P. Reed

Accolades

- First Oxbridge female swimmer

PJ Thum

12 hr 24 minutes, 6/8/05

Having participated in the 2004 Cross Channel relay, PJ set his sights on the English Channel. Already a Rhodes Scholar, Commonwealth scholar, Singaporean National swimmer he snaked his way across the English Channel and singaporean record books.

Pilot:- D. Whyte

John Whittaker

13 hr 15 minutes, 12/9/10

Oxford Alumni.

Pilot:- N. Streeter

Julian Critchlow

14hr 8 minutes, 4/9/04

17hr 35 minutes, 4/8/04

Cambridge Alumni formally of Christ' College

Pilot:- C. Osmond, M. Oram

Anna Hillyer

17 hr 32 minutes, 13/7/05

Oxford Alumni formally of Green College

Pilot:- L Oram

Lexie Elliot

12 hr 31 minutes, 19/7/07

Oxford Alumni, formally of New College.

Lexie Elliot (née Davison, Oxford, New College, 1994) went early at 2am and reached France in 12 hours and 31 minutes - a great effort. Lexie was in the World Record Relay Team of 2000 and was at New College from 1994 - 2001(!).