Clinton Le Sueur

The first 34 km False Bay Relay Swim across False Bay from Pringle Bay to Buffels Bay near Cape Point was completed in 10 hours 2 minutes in April 2019 by swimmers Ram Barkai, Samantha Whelpton, Jean Craven, Kieron Palframan, Clinton Le Sueur and Patrick Wilke with escort pilots Derrick Fraser and Tony Lindeque. The 6-person charity relay started in Pringle Bay at 12.6°C water temperature and continued to drop across False Bay to 11°C water for a majority of the swim where the swimmers encountered seals, jellyfish, blue bottles, and a hammerhead shark deep below.

Clinton Le Sueur is a 45-year-old South African open water swimmer from Cape Town.

Open Water Swimming Highlights

He participated in the Swim For Hope.
He competed in an 8 km ocean swim from Diaz Beach to Buffels Bay around Cape Point in South Africa, in 2 hours 45 minutes. It was a charity swim for the Little Fighters Cancer Trust.
He completed two Ice Kilometer swims.
He swam from Robben Island to Cape Town in South Africa.
He completed a Cape Point swim in South Africa.
He completed the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim in the Southern Ocean along the Antarctic Peninsula on 25 February 2018 in 16:16:29.
He was named one of the World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men in 2018 by the World Open Water Swimming Association.
He finished 25th in the 1 km race on 1 January 2017 in the Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany.
He participated in the first False Bay Relay swim in April 2019, a 34 km relay across False Bay in South Africa.

Heading through the Southern Ocean en route to Antarctica to the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim

44-year-old Samantha Whelpton of South Africa successfully competes in the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim held on 24 November 2018 in Port Lockroy along the Antarctic Peninsula together with 41-year-old Alexander Brylin of Russia, 55-year-old Yunfeng Wang of China, 44-year-old Leszek Naziemiec of Poland, 52-year-old Paolo Chiarino of Italy, 54-year-old Andrey Agarkov of Russia, and 51-year-old Sergio Salomone of Argentina.
45-year-old Clinton Le Sueur of South Africa, 46-year-old Diego López Dominguez of Spain, 42-year-old Wyatt Song of Australia, 42-year-old Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria, 25-year-old Victoria Mori of Argentina, 46-year-old Madswimmer founder Jean Craven of South Africa, and the 61-year-old International Ice Swimming Association founder Ram Barkai of South Africa completed the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim in Mikkelsen Bay in the Southern Ocean along the Antarctic Peninsula on 25 November 2018.