How old is Ross Edgley?

Ross Edgley is 41 years old. He was born on October 13, 1985.

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Ross Edgley

British adventurer, sea swimmer and author famous for swimming around Great Britain

Photo: Nigel McGinley from Garlinge, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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How old is Ross Edgley?
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Ross Edgley is 41 years old. He was born on October 13, 1985.

Ross Edgley is a British athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author.
He holds multiple world records, but is most recognised for completing the World's Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018, when he became the first person in history to swim 1,780 miles (2,860 km) around Great Britain, in 157 days (voted Performance of the Year by the World Open Water Swimming Association.) In 2024, he also became the first person in history to simultaneously hold official Guinness World Records for long-distance swimming in the sea and river when he broke the record for the longest non-stop, continuous river swim down the Yukon River (318 miles/510km).
In 2025, he also became the first person in history to swim 1,000 miles (1,609km) around Iceland in 114 days.

Ross Edgley comes up in these episodes:

The Joe Rogan Experience #2568 (full episode, Oct 20, 2026) with Joe Rogan and guest Ross Edgley: the guest, recapping the Yukon and Iceland swims and previewing his book How to Hero.