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HSF lawyer to make a splash in Hong Kong
A lawyer from Herbert Smith Freehills has announced he will attempt a 45-kilometre ocean swim for charity.
Tom Lodewyke
Simon Holliday, learning and development manager at Herbert Smith Freehills, will attempt an ambitious open ocean swim on 11 November.
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Mr Holliday will set out to circumnavigate Hong Kong Island. He aims to complete the 45-kilometre route in under 17 hours, unassisted and without stopping.
Australian Olympic swimmer Linda McGill became the first swimmer to circumnavigate the island in 1976, with a time of 17 hours. According to a statement from Herbert Smith Freehills, there is no record of a swimmer having achieved the feat since.
Mr Holliday is an experienced endurance swimmer. He swam the English Channel in 2011 and the 35-kilometre route from Hong Kong to Macau in 2014, for which he holds the world record.
He aims to raise HK$1 million for Splash, a charity he co-founded in 2015 to teach people from disadvantaged Hong Kong communities to swim.
The charity has already taught over 800 people to swim, and aims to reach 5,000 by 2020.
