50 year old swimming record broken

The fifty-year-old record of  S. Kumar Anandan has been broken in a big way. While Kumar Anandan took 51 hours to cross the Palk Strait Air Force swimmer Roshan Abeysundara crossed the Palk Strait in a record time of 28 hours and 19 mins and 43 seconds . He swam across the Palk strait from Talaimannar in Sri Lanka to Danushkodi in India and back.

Abeysundara from the Sri Lankan air force holds few other records. He swam  25Km distance from Matara to Koggala on January 3, 2021 within 10 hours and 37 minutes and went on to renew the record by swimming a distance of 49Km from Matara to Hikkaduwa and back to Unawatuna on 27 February 2021 with a timing of 23 hours and 10 minutes.