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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
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.
In 1925, the Women's Swimming Association sponsored Helen Wainwright and Ederle for an attempt at swimming across the English Channel. Helen Wainwright cancelled due to an injury, so Ederle decided to go to France on her own. She trained with Jabez Wolffe, a swimmer who had attempted to swim the English Channel 22 times. [12]
Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên (born November 9, 1996, in Cần Thơ) [1] is a Vietnamese swimmer. She swam for Vietnam at the 2016 Olympics. At the 2014 Asian Games, she won Vietnam's first-ever medal in swimming. [2] She has been named Vietnam's Athlete of the Year in both 2013 and 2014. [3]
The New York Times and several Danish newspapers reported on the swim. [13] Amelia Gade Corson and her children in the New York Times newspaper shortly after her swim. Gade sailed to New York City aboard the RMS Aquitania, [14] and was welcomed by a ticker-tape parade. [15] Gade was the first mother and second woman to swim the Channel. [15] [14]
In 1970, he became only the third person at that time to complete the two-way Channel swim in 35 hrs 10 mins. In 1971 he was the first person to swim around the Isle of Wight . In his 1975 two-way swim, he was ordered out of the water because of awful weather after swimming non-stop for 52hrs 30mins.
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.
Offered $15,000 by the Toronto Telegram newspaper to swim the English Channel, Bell made the crossing in 14 hours, 36 minutes on July 31, 1955. [23] Her crossing started at Cap Gris-Nez and ended at Abbotscliff, between Dover and Folkestone. [ 23 ]