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    In 1926, 19-year-old New Yorker Gertrude Ederle made history by becoming the first woman to swim the English Channel – and in a faster time than the five men who had already achieved the feat.
    Gertrude Ederle, coated in grease, wades into the water on her way to becoming the first woman to swim the English Channel. Ederle completed the swim in a record-breaking 14 hours and 31 minutes.
     
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    List of successful English Channel swimmers - Wikipedia

    First woman and youngest swimmer (at the time) to swim the channel both ways non-stop, breaking Jon Erikson's record of 30 hours and setting a new world record. Her one way crossing in 1975 set the record of 9 hours and 46 minutes (a record that stood until 1988). [ 48 ] See more

    This is a list of notable successful swims across the English Channel, a straight-line distance of at least 18.2 nautical miles (20.9 mi; 33.7 km). See more

    25 August 1875
    Matthew Webb made the crossing without the aid of artificial buoyancy.
    6 September 1911
    Thomas William Burgess became the second person to make the crossing.
    5 August 1923 - 6 August 1923
    Henry Sullivan was successful at his seventh attempt. Enrique Tirabocchi, from Argentina, completed the swim on 13 August, finishing in a record time of 16 hours and 33 minutes and the first person to swim the route starting from France. American Charles Toth of Boston completed the swim on 9 September 1923, in 16 hours and 40 minutes.
    6 August 1926
    Gertrude Ederle's successful cross-channel swim began at Gris Nez in France at 07:05 am on 6 August 1926. She came ashore at Kingsdown, Kent, England, in a total time of 14 hours and 39 minutes, making her the first woman to complete the crossing and setting the record for the fastest time.
    28 August 1926
    Amelia Gade Corson completed the swim in a time of 15 hours and 29 minutes, one hour longer than the record set by Gertrude Ederle three weeks earlier.
    July 2010
    Jackie Cobell inadvertently set the record for the slowest solo swim, when strong currents forced her to swim a total of 105 kilometres (65 mi) in 28 hours and 44 minutes, breaking the record set by Henry Sullivan in 1923, who had been the third person, and the first American, to make the crossing.

    First unaided attempt by J. B. Johnson
    The first attempt to cross the channel with no artificial aid was made by the 23 year old J. B. Johnson on August 30 1872. Johnson hired a brass band in Dover to hype up his attempt, and entertained the crowd for 3 hours … See more

     
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