One of the most unusual and gruelling events in the sporting calendar was completed in a world record time.
The Bog Snorkelling Triathlon in Britain’s smallest town, Llanwrtyd Wells in mid Wales, was finished in a time of two hours 21 minutes and five seconds by 30-year-old Dan Bent from Richmond.
To cross the finish line, competitors have to run seven-and-a-half miles, complete two lengths of the town’s infamous 135-foot long, six-foot deep bog and cycle 19 miles across the most demanding of mountain terrain.
