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CURRENT CLUB RECORDS - BEST PERFORMANCES - AND TRIVIA

(As of December 20011)

Course	Swimmer	Time	Date	Comment
ROUND JERSEY SWIMS
First Jersey born resident to complete a Round Jersey solo swim	Denize Le Pennec	13 hours 55 minutes	September 1969	There has been a move by our local newspaper to erect a statue to our first Round Jersey and English Channel conqueror  – as yet - watch this space!
Round Jersey solo Fastest Female (Open)	Alison Streeter MBE	9 hrs 53 minutes 47 seconds	August 1989	Alison has the highest number of English Channel crossings for any swimmer with 43 swims! Besides RJ / Two way Thames / Catalina Channel and many many more. (Kevin Murphy holds the men’s record at 34 crossings) (Alison is a life member of the JLDSC)
Round Jersey solo Fastest Male (Open)	Nick Adams	9 hours 51 minutes	July 2010	See also Jersey to France
Fastest Round Jersey Relay comprising Jersey residents	JLDSC ‘UP & COMERS	10 hours 6 minutes 25 seconds	2002	Alison Horsfall; Simon Dowling; Terry Fitzpatrick; Steve Toudic; Ian Anderson; Michael Lucas
Round Jersey Fastest Relay	Polar Bears Around Jersey East Bound (JSC)	9 hours 26 minutes 39 seconds	2008	Bruce Bridal; Ian Jones; Daniel Halksworth; Anthony Smith; Craig Swart; David Le Clercq
Round Jersey Fastest Relay Club organised (Open)	Royal Air Force Swimming Association	9 hours 43 minutes 35 seconds	13th August 1999	Keith Willox; Andy Cutts; Roger Gough; Clive Hughes;Teresa Skilton; Dave Cometson
Round Jersey Relay (Open) Fun team Non standard numbers and times	St Georges Hospital Medical School Open Water Swim Team	9 hours 48 minutes 27 seconds	4th September 2005	The SGHMSOWST comprised eight swimmers with varying times between 30 and 60 minutes duration for each.
Round Jersey – Most solo swims – Female	Lee Sowter (nee Williams)	Two swims	1994 2003	Lee has two solo and two relays to her credit. (Lee is a Life member of the JLDSC)
Round Jersey – Most solo swims - Male	Richard Flambard	Four swims	1989 1999 2001 2002	Richard has the highest number of solo Round Jersey swims with a total of four to date. Plus two Channel, a Round Guernsey and Tampa Bay solos.
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
First Jersey born resident to complete an English Channel solo swim	Denize Le Pennec	20 hours 50 minutes	7th September 1966	Denize swam breaststroke without the aid of goggles! She still has the most westerly landfall in channel swimming history. Landing at Dymchurch Kent
English Channel solo Fastest Female Jersey resident	Sarah-Jane Stirling	11 hours 23 minutes	1st August 2005	Sarah-Jane’s swim adds to her RJ / J2F outings
English Channel solo Fastest Male Jersey resident	Richard Flambard	10 hrs 20 minutes	August 1989	Richard, our fastest to date has two Channel swims to his name.
English Channel Relay Jersey residents	JLDSC ‘Capt Matthew Webb Centenary’ relay squad	9 hours 50 minutes	18th August 1975	Sally Minty; Linda Devereux; Jane Luscombe; Nigel Gates; Ian Le Breton; Robert de St Paer. A relay formed to compete in an international relay race from Wissant France to Shakespeare Beach Dover to celebrate 100 years of Channel swimming (Webb 21 ¾ hrs - 25/08/1875)
English Channel Most crossings Female Jersey resident	Sally Minty-Gravett	Four swims	1975 1985 1992 2005	Sally becomes the only woman in the world to have swum the Channel in four different decades.  Plus three relays ’75 – ’04 – ‘06. Along with RJ / J2F / Catalina Channel
English Channel Most crossings Male Jersey resident	David Minty Equal with: Richard Flambard	Two Swims each	1977 – 1979 1989 - 2003	David and his sister Sally are believed to be the only brother and sister to have swum the Channel twice each.
English Channel Most crossings in one season by members of the JLDSC resident in Jersey	2005 Seven crossings – Six solo’s One Relay			Sally Minty-Gravett; Ilse Eislen; - Lucy Biard Sarah-Jane Stirling; Ian Jones; Anthony Smith.   Relay: ‘Six Jersey Beans with a hint of Ginger!’ Above six plus ‘Ginger Bill’ Aston
Youngest Jersey swimmer to cross the Chanel	David Minty	11 hours 36 min	7th September 1977	14 years 4 months
JERSEY to FRANCE
First Jersey born resident to complete Jersey to France swim	Denize Le Pennec	9 hours 25 minutes	1966
Jersey to France Female	Alison Woods	8 hours 7 minute	20h July 2010
Jersey to France Male	Nick Adams	7 hours 3 minutes	27th  July   2008
Jersey to France Relay	n/a			6 man / woman squad
Jersey to France Two-Man Relay Fun team Non-standard numbers and times.	‘Anglo – Spanglo’ relay	9 hours 23 minutes 31 seconds	August 2005	To test the route for the first swim in 26 years. Cliff Golding – (England) Laura Lopez-Bonilla (Spain) (Laura & Cliff are both life members of the JLDSC)

OTHER CHANNEL ISLAND SWIMS
Alison Horsfall has the distinction of being the only swimmer to have circumnavigated all four five major Islands in the British Channel Islands group. Jersey – 41 miles - 10hrs 20 min in 1995. Guernsey – 28 miles - 9hrs 39min in 1998. Alderney – 6 miles - 4hrs 3 min in 2000. Sark – 5 miles - 4hrs 25min in 1999. Besides an English Channel swim of 17hrs 24min in 1997 Herm - 3 miles - 2hrs 8 mins in 2010 as well as Jersey to France with a new record time
Guernsey 28 miles	Richard Flambard	9 hours 6 minutes	1999
Sark 5 miles	Sally Minty-Gravett     Dario Parmesan	4 hours 25 minutes - 4 hours 25 min	1999       1999	Together with Alison Horsfall, Sally and Dario completed the ‘Sark Lark’ A swim of turbulent whirlpools and adverse currents as the extended time for such a distance would show!

STRANGE SPOOKY FACTS ON JERSEY SWIMS (YOU HOPE YOU’LL NEVER NEED TO COMMIT TO MEMORY)
ROUND JERSEY
First Jersey born swimmer	Denize Le Pennec Jersey	20 hrs 50 min 7th September 1966
First English born swimmer	Alison Streeter Nutfield Surrey	9 hrs 53 min 47 secs August 1987
First Scottish born swimmer	Colleen Blair Dundee	10hrs 10 min September 2006
First Irish born swimmer	Lisa Howley Dublin Eire	11 hours 10 min August 2002
First French born swimmer	Jean-Paul Madelenat Coutances Normandy	11 hrs 46 min July 2002
First Spanish born swimmer	Laura Lopez-Bonilla Madrid Olé	10 hrs 37 min September 2004
First Australian born swimmer	Ian Byrne Manly Vale Sydney NSW	10 hrs 37 min 58 sec August 2004
First African born swimmer	Sally Minty-Gravett Gwaka Belgian Congo	10 hrs 47 min August 1992
First American born swimmer	Tim Lawrence Waterloo Idaho	10 hrs 45 min 23 sec July 2002
First Canadian born swimmer	Lisa Freeman Toronto	11 hrs 9 min June 2009
First resident - New Jersey USA	Don Walsh Spring Lake Heights NJ	13 hrs 1 min August 2006
Youngest swimmer	David Minty Jersey	14 years 3 months on 17th August 1977
Oldest swimmer	Jean-Paul Madelenat Coutances Normandy	60 years ‘young’ in July 2002
JERSEY to FRANCE
First Jersey born swimmer	Denize Le Pennec Jersey	9 hrs 25 min 1966
First English born swimmer	Dee Richards Kilburn London	12 hrs 55 min August 2008
First American born swimmer	Tim Lawrence Waterloo Idaho	8 hrs 21 min July 2006
First African born swimmer	Sally Minty-Gravett Gwaka Belgian Congo	8 hrs 31 min 28th August 1978
Youngest swimmer	David Minty Jersey	15 years 4 months on 28th August 1978
Oldest swimmer	Dee Richards Kilburn London	Shhhh! 53 years ‘young’

These records are only as good as my fading/failing memory allows and those records available show. Should you know otherwise please update, especially exact dates and times if I’m wrong, by E-mailing sinkorswim@jerseymail.co.uk

Also, all records are set to be broken – so it’s up to you to change or add to them!

‘Charlie’ Gravett

June 2009