Are You Ready to be a World Record Holder?

If you're free tomorrow around 10:00am, you could become a world record holder.

Neighboring Clayton is holding a swimming event it hopes will get into the Guinness World Record books.

The Clayton-Shaw Park aquatics staff is planning on doing its part to help break the world record for the largest individual swim lesson. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, June 14 at 10 a.m. "Our plans are holding it outdoors at the Shaw Park pool, but if its 70 degrees or below, we will go indoors at the Center of Clayton,” said Chris Cholley, assistant aquatic supervisor Parks & Recreation for the City of Clayton.

The parks department has been taking advance registrations and right now, they are looking at 30 or so participants (ages 3-14).

Organizers will take walk in participants on Tuesday morning. The pool deck will open at 9:15 a.m. either at Shaw Park or the Center of Clayton for registration, a free breakfast and instructions.

“We are part of a program where lessons will be given around the world simultaneously, on two continents. We are lucky to be in the time zone where it will be 10 in the morning,” said Cholley.

Nine instructors and two supervisors will be standing by to give the introductory lessons. A judge will be on site to certify the exact count of participants, and they will feed the information worldwide to see if a record has been broken. That would be in the range of some 30,000+ worldwide.

“We’re doing our part. We think we will break that record,”said Cholley.

Organizers will determine the location by 8 a.m. That information will be on the hotlines:

Manager, Shaw Park: 314-290-8591, swim hot line: 314-290-8592, or the Center of Clayton(314)290-8500.


The event website is: www.worldslargestswimlesson.org