An event is set to be held to mark the 150th anniversary of the first successful swim across the English Channel. Captain Matthew Webb arrived in France at the end of his milestone 22-hour Channel ...

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 in love ...

When Marian Cardwell ’11 learned that she would spend her year as an English teaching assistant in Lille, France, she began dreaming of a swim—a very long swim. Lille is near the English Channel, a ...

In the days leading up to the moment last Tuesday when Molly Sanborn found herself on a near-pitch-dark Samphire Hoe beach waiting to start her attempt to swim the English Channel, she thought of the ...

She’s taking home the mermaid crown. A fearless Gotham native is set to stroke across the English Channel’s 21 miles of treacherous waters this week — becoming the first woman from the Big Apple to ...

SARASOTA - Fifteen miles in, Allen Hillman was in “the zone,” that place of total focus in the present moment. The 55-year-old Sarasota resident remained in this ...

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 ...

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.