"Exhausting and emotional" is how one man has described taking part in a 16-hour swim relay across the English Channel. Mark ...

SPRINGFIELD, N.H. (AP) -- A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile swim by reaching a sandy beach in France after darkness fell.

Fewer than 2,000 swimmers have completed solo crossings of the English Channel since 1875. The Channel Swimming Association formed in 1927 to authenticate these swims and verify their times.

On 6 August 1926, Ederle swam out into the English Channel again. This time she was wearing a swimsuit of her own design – a ...

A doctor from Belcoo has made waves across Fermanagh and beyond after becoming the first woman from the county to successfully swim the English Channel.

Updated 11 a.m. July 27: Ernie Hoftyzer began swimming in the dead of night Tuesday (July 26) near Folkestone, England, and wouldn't stop for nearly 12 hours. The Institute of Transportation Studies ...

A British swimming association says endurance athlete Lewis Pugh has completed his 330-mile (530-kilometer) swim along the length of the English Channel from Land's End to Dover the first swimmer ...

The teens had shattered both the team and solo records for the fastest swim across the 19.9-mile-wide crossing, per records with the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association.

As the channel swim approaches, he will decrease his mileage. During the last week of June into July , he shortened his distance to 16 to 20 miles for the week. This week he will swim 10 to 12 miles.

She crossed “roly-poly” waves in 64 degrees Fahrenheit water, accompanied by a pilot boat affiliated with the Channel Swimming Association. Her mother and younger sister were aboard as her crew.

In this photo provided by Darcie DeBlois-Rivard, long distance swimmer Vera Rivard, 16, of Springfield, N.H., below, swims the English Channel between Dover, England and Calais, France, as a ...