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First known person from Southern Africa to swim the English Channel. [38] France to England Sweden Sally Bauer: 1939 15:22 First Swede, and first Scandinavian, to swim the English Channel. [39] England to France Belgium Fernand Du Moulin: 1949 12:59 First Belgian person and man to swim the English Channel. [40] [41] France to England Canada
Gertrude Caroline Ederle (/ ˈ ɛ d ər l i /; [1] October 23, 1905 [2] – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer and had measles at the age of 5 which caused her to be deaf in her left ear she was a Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events.
Up to 1927, fewer than ten swimmers (including the first woman, Gertrude Ederle in 1926) had managed to successfully swim the English Channel, and many dubious claims had been made. The Channel Swimming Association (CSA) was founded to authenticate and ratify swimmers' claims to have swum the Channel and to verify crossing times.
Antonio Abertondo (August 1, 1918 – July 6, 1978) was an Argentine long-distance swimmer. He was the first person to complete a two way swim of the English Channel.He completed the swim on 21 September 1961 in 43 hours 10 minutes, with just a 4-minute rest in France.
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)).
For humans, the efficiency of conversion is estimated as requiring 60 mg of tryptophan to make 1 mg of niacin. Riboflavin , vitamin B 6 and iron are required for the process. [ 20 ] Pellagra is a consequence of a corn-dominant diet because the niacin in corn is poorly bioavailable and corn proteins are low in tryptophan compared to wheat and ...
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.
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 ...