Liane Llewellyn
Liane Llewellyn Hickling is a member of The Loveleys, a group of women who took 17 hours 50 minutes 50 seconds to swim 56 miles around the Isle of Wight in a island circumnavigation swim in September 2011. Rachael Cretten, Kathy Batts (2-way English Channel swimmer), Lucy Donnelly, Paula Foreman and Becky Hedges were the other members.
Llewellyn's swimming record is phenomenal; she has strength of character, determination, speed and total focus. She is a member of the 24-hour club and is also the President Elect of the British Long Distance Swimming Association and was a member of the Windermere 12-way Warriors that set a world marathon swimming relay record and was nominated for the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year.
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Brief Swimming History
- Member of the recent Irish Channel Relay crossing.
- Member of the 12 way Windermere Relay in May 2011.
- Completed a 2 Way English Channel Solo in 2009 in 27 hours 35 minutes to join the 24-hour Club.
- Completed a solo Loch Ness crossing
- Completed a solo Loch Lomond crossing in 10 hours 36 minutes 16 seconds on 14 August 2002 and a crossing in 12 hours 15 minutes 57 seconds on 16 August 2008.
- Member of a 3 Way English Channel Relay.
- Member of the Windermere 12-way Warriors.
- Completed the 21-mile (33.7 km) BLDSA 2 Way Windermere Championship (2WW) in 10 hours 22 minutes 11 seconds at its 5 August 2001 Championship.
Windermere 12-way Warriors
Llewellyn was a member of the Windermere 12-way Warriors who also included Thomas Noblett, Keith Bartolo, Michelle Lefton, Michelle Sharples and Dee Llewellyn. They set the world's non-stop lake distance swimming record in 2011. Their 3-day adventure of endurance, teamwork and patience was held in Windermere in the Lake District of England. The team did 12 non-stop crossings of Windermere that broke the existing record of 118 miles, set by the Night Train Swimmers in Lake Powell in Arizona, USA in 2010.
The 12-way Warriors swam 126 miles in 75 hours and 32 minutes straight. The team was nominated for the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year.
Split Times
Their first lap was 6 hours 45 minutes.
Their second lap was 5 hours 45 minutes.
Their third lap was 6 hours 15 minutes.
Their fourth lap was 6 hours 2 minutes.
Their fifth lap was 6 hours 25 minutes.
Their sixth lap was 6 hours 6 minutes.
Their seventh lap was 6 hours 53 minutes.
Their eighth lap was 6 hours 19 minutes.
Their ninth lap was 6 hours 10 minutes.
Their tenth lap was 6 hours and 2 minutes.
Their eleventh lap was 6 hours 24 minutes.
Their twelfth lap was 5 hours 54 minutes.
Nomination for the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year
World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women
She was named to the list of World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women by the World Open Water Swimming Association in 2015.
External links
- The World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women
- The Loveleys
- Windermere 12-way Warriors
- How To Beat Night Train Swimmers
- Facebook Group
- World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nomination
- How Lovely Was The Swim Around Wight
- Updated 24-Hour Club
- 24-hour Club…Swimming All Day And Night
- The 1-2-3s Of Open Water Swimming
- Commander Forsberg Starts Loch Lomond Crossings
- British Long Distance Swimming Association
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- A Short List of Marathon Swims
- Open Water Swimming
- British Long Distance Swimming Association
- The Legacy Of Loch Lomond
- 2WW Swimmers In History
- Updated 24-Hour Club
- 24-hour Club…Swimming All Day And Night
- Swimming For More Than 24 Hours
- Who's Who In English Channel's Over-and-Back
- Pierre Van Vooren's Legacy: Most Arduous Swims
