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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
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 ...
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]
Stella Taylor (December 20, 1929 – February 11, 2003) was an American long-distance swimmer born in Bristol, England, best known for crossing the English Channel twice and holding Guinness Book of Records recognition (1974 to 1994) as the oldest woman to swim across the Channel. [3] She made her first English channel crossing in August 1973 ...
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)).
Her 1988 Channel swim, from France to England, set a female record of 8 hours 48 minutes. She was the first woman to swim the Channel three ways non-stop in 1990, taking 34h40 min for the feat. In 1988, Streeter became the first woman to swim across the North Channel , between Northern Ireland and Scotland , a feat she repeated in 1989 and 1997 ...
He completed the 40-mile swim which broke the record for the longest freshwater swim, and earned publicity from The Times. [99] The record stood until 1899 when it was beaten by Montague Holbein. [3] By 1879, Webb was in financial trouble. [100] To raise funds, he entered a long-distance swimming race organised by Beckwith.