By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
Distance open water extraordinaire Corey Murphey capped off a career-high calendar year with one her biggest feats yet: a world record in an oceans seven swim.
Murphey, a Colorado-based American athlete, completed the 21.4 mile (34.5 kilometer) North Channel swim in 9 hours, 11 minutes, and 34 seconds. Pending ratification, this swim eradicates the previous women’s world record in the Norhtern Ireland-to-Scotland voyage: 9 hours, 34 minutes, and 39 seconds by fellow American Michelle Macy.
Murphey told SwimSwam that the feat was “one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had.”
“It’s a magical experience when things come together in the right way”.
In addition from Murphey’s training regimen and experience, in which we’ll delve into the details of, Murphey did have several factors in her favor on that September day. For one, the relatively rough water conditions the day of the race paradoxically made it easier because it kept jellyfish away. Murphey had never come into contact with jellyfish in training before hitting the North Channel’s mid-50 degree (Fahrenehit) waters.
The Coloradoan also received lots of love from North Channel communities, including Northern Ireland swimming group Donaghadee Chunky Dunkers, as well as another swimmer braving the feat on the same day.
Perhaps the most important assistance of all came from Jill Murphey, Corey’s own mother, who accompanied her daughter for most of the swim on kayak. Jill threw water bottles to her daughter, as she does on most of her daughter’s swims, and provided both emotional and pragmatic health support throughout the journey.
“It’s reassuring when your physician mom is like ‘yeah, you’re fine’ (health-wise),” Corey remarked.
The North Channel world record in one of the most famed long-distance swims is the high-profile cherry on top of a decorated 2026 for Murphey. She kicked the year off becoming the first person to swim down and pack Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca, which spans 18.9 miles (30.4 km) both ways at 12,500 feet of Andean altitude.
In May, she completed the Strait of Gibraltar, which is another one of the esteemed Oceans Seven swims.
In August, Murphey returned to the open water to swim Lake Tahoe down and back. In the process, she broke two world records:
The endurance athlete accomplished all of this all while completing a PhD in computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder. In between TAing and research, Murphey got in several dozen kilometers per week. On weekends, she would travel to open bodies of water, sometimes clocking 8 hour+ days in lakes. She has dozens of training partners, including fellow open water record breaker Sarah Thomas.
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