Eyes down, look in! Yes, the world bog snorkelling championship returned today with an unknown smashing the world record time for the event.

The 26th World Bog Snorkelling Championships saw around 110 competitors take to the "water" at the Waen Rhydd Bog.

And last year's record time for swimming two lengths of a 55-metre (60-yard) trench cut through a peat bog was shattered by more than six seconds.

Dan Morgan's time of one minute 30.66 seconds, set by the Brecon man last year, was destroyed by Andrew Holmes, from Halifax in West Yorkshire. Morgan could only finish third as the top three finishers all broke last year's record.

It means the record time for the madcap sport has fallen by almost 14 seconds in the last two years.