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Lake Malawi Swimmers

1992Lewis Pugh, 9 hours 52 minutes (UK/SA)
Otto Thanning, 9 hours 52 minutes (SA)
2010Abigail Brown, 9 hours 45 minutes (UK)
2013Milko van Gool, 8 hours 46 minutes (NL)
Kaitlin Harthoorn, 9 hours 17 minutes (USA)
2016Mad Swimmers – Jean Craven (SA), Robert Dunford (Kenya), Michiel le Roux (SA), Samantha Whelpton (SA), Greig Bannatyne (SA), Haydn von Malitz (SA), Douglas Livingstone-Blevins (SA) 7 hours 53 minutes
2019Martin Hobbs (SA), became the first person to swim the full length of Lake Malawi (54 days), as well as setting the world record for longest solo swim in a lake
Chris Stapley 8 hours 40 minutes (Eswatini)
Jay Azran 8 hours 40 minutes (SA)
Andrew Stevens 10 hours 50 minutes (AUS)
2023Pat Gallant-Charette 13 hours 5 minutes (USA), first swim to be swam for ratification – DOCUMENTED BY OWA
2023Swim Brothers USA – Joe & John Zemaitis, 7 hours 49 minutes (USA), fastest to date – DOCUMENTED BY OWA
2023Three Persons Relay – Monene Murray, Ceri Coxon, Shannon Straw, 10 hours 49 minutes (ZA), first relay team – DOCUMENTED BY OWA
2023William Smith Solo 7 hours, 42 minutes (UK), fastest solo swim – DOCUMENTED BY OWA


Reference: Wikipedia