Through the English Channel. The swim around Manhattan was part of what is considered the triple crown of open-water swimming, a rare feat that only has approximately 375 recorded swimmers who can ...

Swimming the English Channel requires months of preparation. Most participants sign up at least two years in advance. Swimmers have an entire crew providing navigation and food, since the swim can ...

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.

She’s already swum from San Francisco to Alcatraz, and has eyed the English Channel since she was 12. Amy Wamsley, 49, of Yellow Springs, during a 6-hour swim underneath the Golden Gate Bridge ...

Jake has earned a place in the history books, in the Channel Swimming Associations records and his achievement has reached legend status in Westchester. But, Jake did more than just swim the Channel.

English Channel fast facts — 21 miles: shortest distance in a straight line across channel. — 57-64 degrees Fahrenheit: water temperature during swim season.

Her English Channel dream felt unattainable and all the training, all the effort, all of it was for nothing. Later, in their hotel room that night, the morale of Team Mazur reached absolute zero.

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WDTN) — A Yellow Springs woman is getting ready to do something that fewer than 2,000 people have ever done successfully. Amy Wamsley is preparing to swim across the ...

She plans to swim the English Channel this summer. The idea was hatched a couple of years ago, when the coach of her swim club in Moscow, Idaho, suggested the challenge.