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

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

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A Des Moines lawyer has become the first American to both climb Mount Everest and swim the English Channel. Charlie Wittmack crossed the 21-mile channel on Sunday.

Amy Wamsley tells people to live their dreams. She’s already swum from San Francisco to Alcatraz, and has eyed the English Channel since she was 12. A Yellow Springs woman is planning to swim ...

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 ...

That’s certainly true if you’re Paige Christie ’15, who in August will become the sixth Smithie to attempt the Channel swim. She follows the legacy of Margaret Broenniman ’85 and Maura FitzPatrick ...