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- Female swimmers who have successfully swum the English Channel include12:
- Gertrude Ederle (American), who became the first woman to swim the channel in 1926.
- Alison Streeter (British), who holds the title of Queen of the Channel and has crossed the channel at least 43 times since 1982.
Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.It was August 6, 1926, the day that an American, Gertrude Ederle, was poised to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had ever swum the waterway before. The challenges included quickly changing tides, six-foot waves, frigid temperatures and lots of jellyfish.www.history.com/news/gertrude-ederle-first-woma…In 1926, American competition swimmer Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the channel. While Thomas’s feat is incredible and will be hard to beat, it still does not earn her the title Queen of the Channel. That honor is currently held by British swimmer Alison Streeter, who has crossed the Channel at least 43 times since 1982.www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/american-… - People also ask
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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). [ 36 ] 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 1875Matthew Webb made the crossing without the aid of artificial buoyancy.6 September 1911Thomas William Burgess became the second person to make the crossing.5 August 1923 - 6 August 1923Henry 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 1926Gertrude 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 1926Amelia 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 2010Jackie 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.Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license The First Woman to Swim the English Channel Beat the Men’s
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