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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
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]
In 1991, he won a gold medal in the men's 25 kilometres open water swimming event at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships. In 1994, he set the (then) world record for the fastest swim of the English Channel in a time of 7 h 17 mins. [3] The previous record had stood since 1978, when Penny Lee Dean completed the swim in 7 h 40 mins.
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 ...
Philip Rush (New Zealand - born 6 November 1963) is a firefighter and long distance swimmer who is the current world record holder for the fastest two and three way swim of the English Channel which he completed in 1987 in a time of 28 h 21 mins (he completed the two way in a time of 16 h 10 mins (1st leg - 7 h 55 mins, 2nd leg - 8 h 15 mins, 3rd leg - 12 h 11 mins)).
The British records in swimming are ratified by the United Kingdom's governing body in swimming, British Swimming. Records can be set in long course (50 metres) or short course (25 metres) swimming pools, with records currently recorded in the following events for both men and women. Freestyle: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m, 1500 m
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 ...
Brenda Fisher in 1951 swimming the English Channel. On 17 August 1951 she was the 23rd swimmer of the English Channel from France to England, completing in a new record women's time of 12 hours 42 minutes. She was fed every hour keeping up a rate of 25 strokes a minute rising to 30 as she approached England.