The 'English Channel Swim', where swimmers have to cover a distance of 32km between England and France represents a unique long-distance, open-water, sea-swimming challenge, and each year swimmers from all over the world try to succeed in this challenge. The best times in minutes and the ...
Every summer many people try to swim across the English Channel . The shortest distance is only about twenty miles (one mile is about 1.6km) but because of the strong currents the distance that must be swum is usually more than twice as far . The strong currents from the Atlantic Ocean...
Five more channel boats out of 11 also turned round that day (one experienced helper writing it was the worst conditions out in the Channel she had ever experienced), and 2 more pulled their swimmers a few hours later, not reaching France. An expensive “training swim” with lots of “dan...
Over the year Eilis was happy (most of the time). Distance and endurance was building and speed increasing. It was great to have so many channel swimmers in Source and in contact. Eddie told me “it is doable”, Rob was always positive and realistic and Finbarr didn’t know what all ...
Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old merchant navy captain, becomes the first known person to successfully swim the English Channel. Captain Webb accomplished the grueling
What exactly makes thousands of people take part in the triathlon events, where you have to swim 1500 metres, then immediately cycle 40 kilometres and right afterwards run 10 km – and all of that without a break? Description All triathlons consist of Swimming, Cycling, and Running one after...
The distance across the English Channel from Shakespeare Beach to Cap Gris Nez is 18.1 nautical miles or 20.8 statute miles or 33.5 km across the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some 65,000 km2 (29,000 ...
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In 1926, in her second attempt to swim across the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle not only crossed the Channel against currents that Forced her to swim thirty-five miles instead of the minimal twenty-one, but she set a record for speed as well, by swimming the distance in almost two hour...
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