MALAYSIAKU GEMILANG THE SERIES vol. 31.1

MALAYSIA BOOK OF RECORDS

Fastest to swim across the English Channel Inspired by Dato’ Abdul Malik Mydin, Lennard Lee, a medical student at Cambridge University, successfully swam non-stop across the 33.6 km-wide English Channel in 9 hours 45 mins on July 15, 2004. Lennard, 20, swam in the open sea without any barrier, became the second Malaysian to achieve the feat. Tailed by his parents in a boat, he started at 8.34 (London time) from Dover and completed the swim at 6.19pm in Calais, France CREDIT TO http://www.malaysiarecords.com.my/