McMahon, 58, swam the English Channel when he was 22 years old. He completed the 28.5-mile Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, four years later. He needed Catalina to complete what is known as open ...

A Cumbrian swimmer achieved a dream goal a week before a milestone birthday. Amy Favieres, a mum of two from Grange, took on ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Heather Roka broke down the most challenging parts of her swim into 30-minute increments. “You can do anything for 30 more minutes,” she told herself. When it got tougher ...

Last month, Roka, of Fort Myers, completed the English Channel double crossing, a 21-mile swim between Dover, England to Northern France – and back.

In 1875, Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel (that we know about, at least), and since then, fewer than 2,000 other people have completed successful solo crossings.

English Channel Crosser’s Open Water Message for 2021: ‘Find Inspiration in it’ By Kat Hall, Swimming World Contributor. During the past eight months, most of us have had our athletic events ...

More people have summitted Mount Everest than have swam the English Channel. At 55, Jeannie Zappe will attempt to add her name to the list of swimmers to complete the 21-mile journey, while also ...

In September 2021, at 14, she broke the record as the youngest woman in history to successfully swim the 20-mile Catalina Channel, finishing in 10 hours and 48 minutes.

In 2021, her mother was ... A well-rested Craigen would head to England in August 2024 to attempt to swim across the English Channel. While the swim itself is "only" 21 miles between England and ...

The world record for the fastest English Channel swim, set the very same day that Whitlock swam, is 6 hours, 45 minutes. The world's record for the longest crossing is just over 29 hours.

That is what Maya Merhige, 17, went through for 11 hours and 39 minutes this month as she swam roughly 23 miles across the English Channel, from England to France. The swim earned her the Triple ...