New Year’s Day swim at Saundersfoot 2012

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MORE than 1,600 people braved the cold waters off the West Wales coast yesterday in a record-breaking New Year’s Day swim at Saundersfoot.

The annual event, which has run since 1984, attracted more than 7,000 spectators despite the rain.

Last year the swim raised £36,000 for charity and with more than 300 extra taking part this year that figure is set to increase for the 2012 event. Organiser Steve Williams said: “We adopted an Olympic theme this year because of 2012 and asked people to dress in the colours of Team GB or as their favourite athletes.

“We had a chap dressed as Eddie the Eagle and the winning costumes came from a group who were in a London Bus with all of them dressed as members of Team GB.

 “We’ve also had our own Olympic torch touring Pembrokeshire for the last five weeks and it arrived in Saundersfoot this morning to signal the start of the swim.

“We had 1,657 swimmers so it has been another record-breaking year and a great success.”