Charity swim smashes world record
by The Daily Eye Team February 8 2014, 11:35 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 26 secsOlympic medal-winning swimmers Becky Adlington and Michael Jamieson battled their way to a Guinness World Record 100 x 100m swimming relay title to raise tens of thousands of pounds for cancer research.
The pair were joined by fellow Olympians Fran Halsall and Karen Pickering to tally up a new record of 1 hour 29 minutes and 3 seconds in Sheffield.They destroyed the previous record of 1 hour 37 minutes and 53 seconds and endured the slog to raise more than £20,000 for blood cancer charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.