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PENISTONE SWIMMER BREAKS RECORD A SWIMMER from Penistone was part of a team that broke the record for a threetime relay crossing of the English Channel last week.
Nikki Fraser, 24, was the youngest of six swimmers that took part in the challenge, raising money for two charities in the process. It isn’t the first time she’s been involved in a challenging swim, she crossed the Irish Sea as part of a team that featured pop star Ronan Keating when she was 19. With Cancer Research UK, Sheffield Children’s Hospital and the MS Society having already benefitted from Nikki’s swimming, it was the turn of the British Heart Foundation and Headway this time.
RECORD BREAKERS: Nikki with her team and, right, swimming in the English Channel
Natalie Massey. Dee was the oldest of the group at 39 and took part just five months after giving birth. A boat followed the swimmers along the journey with five of them in the boat and one swimming.
When one swimmer began to tire, the next would swim behind them and catch them up to relieve them of their duties, much like in a relay foot race. Nikki, who has just finished a veterinary degree at the University of Liverpool, told Look
Local: “We swam the English Channel three times - to France, back to England and then back to France - in a time of 31 hours and 20 minutes, breaking the world record by one hour and 11 minutes! “We swam over 75 miles and had to battle high winds, strong tides and hundreds of jellyfish to complete this swim. We then found out that we also beat the men’s world record by a few minutes. “We are raising money for the British Heart Foundation and Headway.
These charities are close to our hearts as three of our team members have needed help from the BHF in the past, as well as our pilot Andy King. “I just love swimming. We were confident in our ability but if the tide isn’t right, not even the strongest swimmer can swim against it.”
Nikki already has her next challenge in her sights. “As an individual, I’d like to swim Loch Lomond. It’s the same length as the channel but it’s colder.”
The team was completed by Jane McCormick, Lucy LloydRoach, Emma Ross, Dee Llewellyn-Hodgson and Paralympian
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