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 Paralympic gold medallist became the first blind woman to swim across the English Channel – and says that “nothing is impossible.” Melanie Barratt, 49, took on the challenge after falling ...

Baetzold remembers breaking the butterfly record at his alma mater, North High, years ago. When later swimming for Iowa State's club team, he met Adam, a friend who swam the English Channel in 2015.

By 1927, a half-century after the first crossing of the English Channel, fewer than a dozen people had managed to successfully repeat the swim. Fast-forward 85 years to 2012 and more than 1,000 ...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WDTN) — A Yellow Springs woman has made history becoming only the second woman in Ohio to ever complete a solo English Channel swim. Yellow Springs native Amy Wamsley has ...

Wamsley’s goal is to swim the English Channel for her 50th birthday, a goal she decided on when she was 12-years-old, according to her website aswimadventure.org.