Sean Conway (swimmer)

Sean Conway (born 1981) is a Zimbabwean ultra endurance athlete, author of 6 books [1] and motivational speaker. Sean famously broke the world record for completing 105 ironmans in 105 days.[2] He was also was the first person to swim the length of Britain,[3] is the only person to have completed a length of Britain triathlon,[4] has completed the world's longest triathlon of 4200 miles[5] and has the world record for the fastest self supported cycle across europe.[6]

Sean Conway
Conway on 22 August 2013, during his Swimming Britain challenge
Born (1981-04-06) 6 April 1981
Harare, Zimbabwe
OccupationUltra Endurance Athlete
Known for105 ironmans in a row.

First person to swim the length of Britain. World longest triathlon. Fastest to cycle across europe self supported.

Cycled around the world.
Websiteseanconway.com

Early years

Conway was born in Harare, Zimbabwe,[7][8] on 6 April 1981.[7][9] He later attended Hilton College in South Africa.[10] He lived in Cheltenham[9] for a number of years before moving to the Lake District in 2016. In 2020 he moved to Wales with his wife Caroline and two boys.

He earns his living as an adventurer, author and public speaker.[11][12]

Swimming
Conway swimming during his successful attempt to become the first person in history to swim from Land's End to John o' Groats

Starting on 30 June 2013, Conway set out to swim from Land's End in the south-west of Great Britain, to John o' Groats, in the north, travelling up the west coast of Great Britain and via the east coast of Ireland.[13] He completed the swim on 11 November,[9] the first person to do so,[8][9][13] having swum 900 miles (1,400 km), in 135 days, 90 of which were spent in the water, the others avoiding contrary tides, resting, and avoiding bad weather,[9] sometimes ashore and sometimes on his support yacht.[8][13] He grew a thick beard to help prevent jellyfish stinging his face.[9]

He used the achievement to raise money for the charity War Child.[9]

Triathlon

Sean Conway became the first person to complete an "ultimate triathlon" when he finished running from John O' Groats to Land's End,[14] having already cycled and swum the entire way before. The run was made into a two-part documentary called Sean Conway:Running Britain for Discovery Channel UK.[15] Sean Conway completed the "ultimate triathlon" unsupported, without the support of a team and lifeboats.[16]

In 2016 Sean set the world record for the world's longest triathlon. A 4200 mile journey around the coast of Britain.[17] This was made into a documentary now on Amazon Prime called Sean Conway on the Edge.[18] This record has since been broken by Jonas Deichmann[19]

In 2023 Sean Conway also broke the world record for the most ironmans completed in a row. He completed 105 ironmans in 105 days [20] surpassing James Lawrences record of 101.[21]

Cycling

Sean took the record for the fastest, unsupported crossing of Europe by bicycle[22] in March 2018. Starting in Cabo de Roca on the west coast of Portugal, he successfully cycled nearly 4,000 miles, finishing at the Russian town of Ufa in 24 days, 18 hours and 39 minutes. The movie Europe or Bust[23] covers this trip. It was later superseded by Leigh Timmis[24] in a fully supported attempt the same year.

Sean has also cycled around the world in 2012 in an attempt to break the world record. Unfortunately his record attempt came to an abrupt end when he got run over in America.[25] He continued after 3 weeks recovery to raise money for Solar Aid successfully returning to London 155 days later.

in 2008 Sean cycled Land's End to John O'Groat which took him 25 days. He wrote a book about his journey.[26]

Running

Sean has run the length of Britain which took 44 days.[27] It was made into a documentray for Discovery Channel called Sean Conway Running Britain.[28]

Sean has run across Iceland which took 10 days.[29] There is a short film on Youtube about his run.[30]

Sean ran a marathon in each of the UK national parks consecutively. So that's 15 Marathons in 15 days.[31]

Sean also once ran 280 miles from Conwy Castle in North Wales to Castle Conway on the west of Ireland.[32]

The 496 Challenge

Sean came up with the now global challenge called The 496 Challenge. The concept is to run the day of the month in kilometres. So on the 1st of the month, you run 1 km, 2nd, 2 km and so on, ending the month with a 31 km run. Add that all together you land up running 496 km.[33]

Books
  • 2012 - Cycling Lands End to John O'Groats[34]
  • 2014 - Cycling The Earth[35]
  • 2015 - Running Britain[36]
  • 2016 - Hell or High Water[37]
  • 2018 - Big Mile Cycling[38]
  • 2019 - The Chronicles of William Wilder - Tempuras Treasure[39]

Documentaries

Sean Conway Running Britain - Discovery Channel (Now on Amazon Prime)[40]

Sean Conway On The Edge - Discovery Channel (Now on Amazon Prime)[41]

Sean Conway Europe or Bust - Amazon Prime[42]

The 496 Challenge - YouTube Short Film[43]

National Park Marathons - YouTube Short Film[44]

Running Across Iceland - YouTube Short Film[30]

Public Speaking

Sean Conway does motivational speaking and has given a TEDx talk [45] amongst many others.[46]

Championing Youth Sport

Sean focuses his energies on trying to encourage youth sport through the work of the True Venture Foundation.[47] Sean raised over £100,000 for True Venture during his 105 Ironmans world record attempt. Sean has also received a personal letter from Prince William about his efforts in youth sport.[48]

References
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  10. "OH swims length of Britain". Hilton College. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  11. Conway, Sean. "My life as a photographer". Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  12. Conway, Sean. "Talks - Sean Conway - Endurance Adventuring". Retrieved 21 November 2013.
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  29. Clo (7 May 2023). "Film: Running Across Iceland - an epic Icelandic coast-to-coast". Now On Earth - Adventure Out. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
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  35. Conway, Sean (7 July 2016). Cycling the Earth: A Life-changing Race Around the World. Ebury Digital.
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  37. Conway, Sean (5 March 2015). Hell and High Water: My Epic 900-Mile Swim from Land’s End to John O'Groats. Ebury Digital.
  38. Conway, Sean (8 April 2019). Big Mile Cycling: Ten Years. 60000 Miles. One Dream. Mortimer Lion Publishing.
  39. Conway, Sean (11 October 2020). Tempura's Treasure. Mortimer Lion Publishing.
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  47. "True Venture". True Venture. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  48. "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 19 September 2023.

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