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This is a list of notable successful swims across the English Channel, [1] a straight-line distance of at least 18.2 nautical miles (20.9 mi; 33.7 km). [ 2 ] Aerial view of the Strait of Dover Ted Heaton (in water) being fed by assistants during his 1910 swim Monument in Dover to Channel swimmers
Penny Lee Dean is an American long distance swimmer who began her career with her swim across frigid San Francisco bay at age 10. She is best known for having the fastest time for anyone to swim from Catalina to California in 7:15:55 in 1976, and the fastest time to swim the English Channel in 1978 in 7:40.
Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 [1] – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events.On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [2]
Rebecca Lewis (born 1983 or 1984, known as Becky), is an English long-distance swimmer. She held the record among English women for the fastest crossing of the English channel in 2009, 2010, and 2013, and in 2016 set a record for the fastest two-way crossing of the channel for both British men and women. [1] Between 2007 and 2022, she completed ...
He also holds the record for the earliest Channel crossing of the year, set on 29 May 1990. [2] In 1964, aged just 15, he completed his first long distance swim – 6 hours 29 minutes for the 10 miles (16 km) of Windermere. In 1968, he completed his first Channel swim – England to France in 15 hours 15 minutes. [3]
She is the first person to complete four consecutive crossings of the English Channel [2] [3] [4] and the first person to swim a current-neutral swim over 100 miles. [5] She holds the world record for longest, second-, and third-longest current-neutral swims, and various other records in both fresh and salt water categories. [5]
In 2014, she coached and crewed 2x relays to swim the English Channel. These swimmers raised over US$125 000 for a cancer charity – Swim Across America . In July 2015, she also coached and crewed one of the 2014 English Channel relay fundraisers, Grant Wentworth, to swim between Cape Cod and Nantucket (USA) and, in doing so, raising $150 000 ...
The English Channel, [a] [1] ... [98] beating a swim of 2007. The female record is held by Yvetta ... Archives of long distance swimming; Channel Swimming and ...