Ross Edgley

Ross Edgley
A man with a beard and mustache wearing a cap and a thick jacket
Edgley in 2018 after completing the Great British Swim at Margate
Born (1985-10-13) 13 October 1985 (age 39)[1][2]
Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
Occupation(s)Extreme adventurer, swimmer, author

Ross Edgley (born 13 October 1985) is a British athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author. He holds multiple world records, but is perhaps most recognised for completing the World's Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018,[3] when he became the first person in history to swim 1,780 miles (2,860 km)[4] around Great Britain, in 157 days[4] (voted Performance of the Year by the World Open Water Swimming Association.)[5] In 2024, he also became the first person in history to simultaneously hold official Guinness World Records for long-distance swimming in the sea and river when he broke the record for the longest non-stop, continuous river swim down the Yukon River (318 miles/510km).[6]

Globally recognised for undertaking athletic adventures in the most hostile conditions for conservation charities,[7] Edgley has completed swims with white sharks in Australia, tiger sharks in the Bahamas and bears in the Yukon River. He also swam through the Gulf of Corryvreckan (Scotland) one of the world's largest whirlpools and crossed frozen fjords in the arctic circle where the water temperature was just above freezing (1°C/33.8°F) and documented his training, nutrition, theories and strategies and published them in his books titled The World's Fittest Book (2018), The Art of Resilience (2020), and Blueprint: Build a Bulletproof Body for Extreme Adventure in 365 Days (2021). All of which became No.1 Sunday Times Bestsellers and have been translated into several other languages.[8]

  1. ^ "CutAndJacked.com Interview: Ross Edgley". www.cutandjacked.com. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Ross Edgley : 2884 km à la nage pour boucler le tour de Grande-Bretagne en 157 jours !!!". Wider, le magazine Trail Outdoor - widermag.com. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  3. ^ Fitzgerald, Quinn (1 January 2019). "Ross Edgley's Great British Swim Voted 2018 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year". WOWSA. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  4. ^ a b Magra, Iliana (4 November 2018). "First Known Swimmer to Circumnavigate Britain Spent 5 Months at Sea". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  5. ^ Munatones, Steven (1 January 2019). "Aleksandra Bednarek Voted 2018 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year". World Open Water Swimming Association. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  6. ^ Tukker, Paul. "U.K. man pushes 'boundaries of common sense' with 510-km non-stop swim down frigid Yukon River".
  7. ^ "Ross Edgley Shares Gruesome Effects of His World Record Swim Attempt". Men's Health. 17 July 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  8. ^ Munatones, Steven (14 September 2021). "Ross Edgley Goes 3 For 3 With His Third Sunday Times Bellseller". World Open Water Swimming Association. Retrieved 21 March 2022.