London Marathon Events launched Swim Serpentine in 2016. We caught up with event director Hugh Brasher to find out what his plans are for 2017 and beyond
How did the demographics of the participants of Swim Serpentine compare to your other events?
I think swimming is probably the most inclusive sport and we saw this in the data. We had a minimum age for the mile event of 16 and our youngest male swimmer was 16 years and 2 days while our youngest female swimmer was 16 years and 23 days. At the other end of the scale, our oldest woman participant was 78 while the oldest man was 71. Interestingly, 55% of participants were women, which is the highest percentage for any of our events.