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2003 Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97
1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida 1992 Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95) 1988 Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53) 1987 Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait 1985 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds 1985 Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hour women swim record of 42.05 miles in 25 meter pool 1983 Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s) 1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel 1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel 1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel 1981 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17) 1980 Valerie Hould-Marchand, Riviere-Du-Loup QU, synchro swim, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics 1979 Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel 1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida 1973 1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) 1972 Yang Wenyi, Chinese swim star, WR/OR 50m freestyle 1971 Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel 1963 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of U.S.) 1962 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba) 1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hours 10 min 1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes 1951 Peter Davison, actor, Dr. Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three 1949 Diana Nyad, swimmer, 1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979 1949 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi) 1947 Richard Roth, U.S., 400m swim medley 1964 Olympic gold 1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans 1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard and 200-yard free-style swim record 1927 Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard and 200-yard free-style 1926 New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel 1923 Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward 1923 1st American to swim English Channel, Henry Sullivan 1918 Florence Chadwick, swimmer, 1st to swim English Channel both ways 1892 Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y" 1877 1st U.S. amateur swim meet (New York Athletic Club) 1876 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38 1875 Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel, 21h 45m 1875 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42 1868 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02 1827 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass) |
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