Mark Ransom

Mark Ransom is a British vegetarian and open water swimmer.

Open Water Swimming Highlights

He crossed the English Channel in 12 hours 23 minutes.
He swims with the West Suffolk Swimming Club in the UK.
He received the Pierre Van Vooren Memorial Trophy for the Swim in the most Arduous Conditions from the Channel Swimming Association.
He was a member of the Six Scilly Swimmers who included Sam Jones, Richard Pearce, Mark Ransom, George Maguire, Megan Sanders, and captain of the team Cathy Freeman-Brown. On 15-16 September 2021, they swam 28 miles from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly in 17 hours 59 minutes 29 seconds. They began at the cliffs just north of Nanjizal Beach in Cornwall at 10:06 am on 15 September, and finished just after 4 am on 16 September as they landed at the cliffs of St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly. The relay was observed by the British Long Distance Swimming Association. They raised more than £4,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), more than doubling their initial target of £2,000.

2017: Maxence Paindavoine (France) in 14 hours 12 minutes
2016: Howard James (England) in 13 hours 13 minutes
2015: Monica Bender (USA) in 13 hours 41 minutes
2014: Meghan Chisholm (Canada) in 14 hours 39 minutes
2013: Tracy Clark (New Zealand) in 12 hours 46 minutes
2013: Carl Plasschaert (Belgium) in 12 hours 6 minutes
2012: Catherine Smith (Great Britain) in 16 hours 32 minutes
2011: Mark Seal (Great Britain) in 12 hours 48 minutes
2010: Ian Down (Great Britain) in 15 hours 47 minutes
2009: Liane Llewellyn (England) in 27 hours 35 minutes
2008: Mark Ransom (Great Britain) in 12 hours 23 minutes
2007: Anne Marie Ward (Ireland) in 20 hours 4 minutes
2006: Sønnøve Cirotski (Norway) in 14 hours 43 minutes
2005: Jane McCormick (Scotland) in 15 hours 12 minutes
2004: Gilles Rondy (France) in 7 hours 54 minutes
2003: Karteek Alec Clarke (Scotland) in 16 hours 5 minutes
2002: Jacques Tuset (France) in 12 hours 40 minutes
2000: Jackie MacDonald (England) in 21 hours 19 minutes breaststroke