Kate Sunley

Catherine Sunley is a 56-year-old disabled open water swimmer from Stockton-on-Tees, England (above-the-knee amputee since the age of 27).

Open Water Swimming Highlights

In 2013, she swam 5 km around Buttermere, after she stopped smoking for 30 years.
In 2014, she swam the length of Windermere
She completed an Ice Mile on 14 December 2014 in Ellerton lake, Richmond, No...in 4.34°C water and 0.00°C air temperature. She swam 1.03 miles in 39 minutes 36 seconds, the first disabled female swimmer to do so.
She was a member of Team Bits Missing, a 5-person disabled channel swimming relay that crossed the 35 km North Channel from Donaghadee in Northern Ireland to Portpatrick, Scotland on 21-22 June 2022 with David Burke of Newry, Northern Ireland, Andrew Smith of Nottinghamshire, England, Mary Clewlow of Cardiff, Wales, and Jonty Warneken of North Yorkshire, England in 15 hours 8 minutes 13 seconds.