Australian Endurance Swimmer Chloe McCardel Destroys Men’s Records For Most Swims Across English Channel; Clarified Awesomeness

There are a number of ways you may be able to define an otherworldly bad ass, and I am fairly certain that spending nearly half of a day in a dangerously vast body of water is somewhere pinned toward the top of that list of things we could never dream of accomplishing.

And this is precisely what Australian endurance swimmer Chloe McCardel achieved this past Saturday evening…for the record 35th time.

Annihilating the most previous record held by Kevin Murphy at 34 channel crosses, McCardel spent an incredibly diligent 10 hours and 40 minutes in the English Channel to achieve the remarkable feat of 35-times crossed, heading from Folkestone to France in a 21-mile venture, reported by BBC.

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And thankfully for Chloe’s sake, she wasn’t met with a quarantine restriction following the presumably-frigid gauntlet, meaning she was free to celebrate with friends and family afterward as planned.

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The phenomenal 35-year old athlete now can set her sights on the next rung in line of the endurance swimming ladder: unseating female English Channel record-holder Alison Streeter for the ultimate achievement therein, 43-times crossed overall, set in 1995 by the now-56-year-old British endurance swimmer.

The unsung accomplishment would be the measure she unknowingly notched thereafter: maintaining social distancing guidelines following the unfathomable record-setting actions, while also not spending any more than ten minutes on the French shores before having to be forced to quarantine (I probably would’ve spent an easy ten minutes crying myself).

In this day and age of post-pandemic 2020, the latter lesser-mentioned feat won’t likely receive enough praise, especially considering what one would imagine to be some physical strenuous circumstances endured while swimming nearly 11 hours in a wildly vast body of water. This is something none of her previous record-holders had to maintain following their accomplishments, so in a way this is like Chloe’s way of tagging a noteworthy asterisk next to her record.

Our hats are off to you, Chloe. Go get ’em nine more times and cement your name even further…but in due time, so rest up.