“It was a team effort”: Andy Donaldson’s record breaking swim around Manhattan Island

On Thursday 19 September, Andy Donaldson completed the 45.9km Manhattan Island Swim in 5:41:48 setting a new world record for the fastest time. Watch our interview with the Scotsman fresh from his incredible feat.

On Thursday 19 September 2024, Andy Donaldson set a new world record for swimming around Manhattan.

We caught up with Andy and his coach and mentor Jay Prchal, to speak about marathon swimming, teamwork, coming back from failure and why both Andy and Jay are such big fans of UltraSwim 33.3.

Watch our interview with record-breaking swimmer Andy Donaldson