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2022 Registration is open now!

January 8, 2022 by Marisa Frieder

Registration for the 2022 Portland Bridge Swim is open now!

Go to our registration site on our home page or at this link.

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Results archive: All solo swims completed through 2019

November 24, 2019 by Marisa Frieder

Curious about past results? Get ’em here:

Results archive

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Race Statistics

June 22, 2019 by Marisa Frieder

Have you ever wondered how finish times are impacted by river conditions?

Lord Root Beer*, the Portland Bridge Swim statistician, decided to explore that question for a school assignment. He found a strong correlation between finish times and the amount of time that swimmers faced an incoming tide. The data for solo swimmers without wetsuits are:

2011
Fastest time 4:19:10
Average time 5:26:06
Duration of incoming tide 3 hours, 42 minutes

2012
Fastest time 3:49:14
Average time 4:53:47
Duration of incoming tide 37 minutes

2013
Fastest time 4:11:09
Average time 5:05:31
Duration of incoming tide 1 hours, 32 minutes

2014 No finishers, race canceled

2015
Fastest time 3:37:20 (Eddie Switaj, current race record)
Average time 5:01:51
Duration of incoming tide 2 hours, 14 minutes

2016
Fastest time 4:16:44
Average time 5:13:42
Duration of incoming tide 3 hours, 7 minutes

2017
Fastest time 3:48:33
Average time 4:59:00
Duration of incoming tide 0 hours, 0 minutes

2018
Fastest time 3:58:04
Average time 5:29:13
Duration of incoming tide 3 hours, 26 minutes

Lord Root Beer predicts that this year, with 2 hours 49 minutes against the tide, the average race time should be around 5 hours, 11 minutes. Let’s see how we do!

*Not his real name

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