Misplaced Pages

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Mervyn Sharp" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Mervyn Sharp is a long distance swimmer from Weymouth, Dorset. His first crossing of the English Channel was in 1967 from France-England, he did it in eight hours and thirty four minutes. He then swam the channel from England-France in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973 and 1974. He held the 'King of the channel' title from 1974-1975, it was then broken by Des Renford. He was a member of Weymouth swimming club in Weymouth.

References

1. "Channel Swimmers".

This biographical article related to a British swimmer is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• English male swimmers
• English Channel swimmers
• Sportspeople from Weymouth
• British male long-distance swimmers
• Living people
• 1940s births
• British swimming biography stubs