Tom Gregory (swimmer)

Tom Gregory
Personal information
Born1976 (age 48–49)
Eltham, Greater London, Great Britain
Sport
SportSwimming

Thomas Gregory (born 9th October 1976) swam the English Channel in 1988 at the age of 11 years and 333 days. As of 2025 he still holds the record as the youngest person to have done so.

No one will take the record from him because the Channel Swimming Association has since set an age limit of 16 years for officially recognised crossings. The age limit was introduced in November 2000.

Gregory's coming-of-age story about being the youngest person to swim the Channel, A Boy in the Water (2018, Penguin: ISBN 9780241354124) was joint winner of the 2018 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. It was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in August 2018. He served in the Royal Anglian Regiment of the British Army.

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