Oldest person to complete the Original Triple Crown (open-water swimming)

The oldest person to achieve the Original Triple Crown of open-water swimming is Pat Gallant-Charette (USA, b. 2 February 1951), who was aged 71 years 229 days when she successfully swam 25.7 kilometres (16 miles) across the Bristol Channel from Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, to west of Glenthorne, Devon, on 19 September 2022. Gallant-Charette had previously swam the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland on 24 August 2016 (also making her the oldest female to have crossed that strait, aged 65 years 204 days) and the English Channel between England and France on 17 June 2017, aged 66 years 135 days.

This also makes Gallant-Charette the oldest person to have swam the Bristol Channel. The Bristol Channel swim was piloted by Aston Grindrod and Elliot Briskham, and observed by Tom Chapman of the Bristol Channel Swimming Association in the support vessel COBRA. The swim started at 5.58 a.m. and lasted for 12 hours 55 minutes 49 seconds.

As well as being the oldest person to have swam the Original Triple Crown, Gallant-Charette is also the oldest person to have completed its modern counterpart, known as the Triple Crown. She was 67 years 148 days old on the day she swam the 20 Bridges Circumnavigation Swim of Manhattan on 30 June 2018; she'd previously swum the Catalina Channel (20.2 miles; 32.5 km) between Santa Catalina Island and the Southern California mainland, on 18 October 2011, and the English Channel (20.9 miles; 33.7 km) between England and France on 22 August 2011 (and again on 17 June 2017).