These records have been taken at face valve and have not been verified. If you wish to challenge any of the below or add to them, we shall need verified paperwork from the the observer's Association that acompanied that person i.e Swim number and what they were wearing.

Direction	Swimmer	Year	Time	Notes
England to France	Matthew Webb	1875	21:45	First crossing from England to France on 24 August 1875.
England to France	Thomas William Burgess	1911	22.35	Second crossing from England to France
England to France	Henry Sullivan	1923	26.50	Third crossing from England to France.
France to England	Enrique Tirabocchi	1923	16.33	First crossing from France to England
France to England	Charles Toth	1923	16.58	Second crossing from France to England
France to England	Gertrude Ederle	1926	14.39	First woman to cross in either direction.
France to England	Amelia Gade Corson	1926	15.29	First mother to cross from England to France
France to England	Edward H. Temme	1934	15.34	First man to swim the English Channel in both directions. He swam from France to England in August 1927 and from England to France on August 18, 1934.
England to France to England	Florence May Chadwick	1953	14.42	First woman to swim the English Channel in both directions
	Brojen Das	1958		First Asian to swim across the English Channel.
England to France to England	Antonio Abertondo	1961	43:10	First person to swim the channel both ways non-stop.
England to France	Jon Erikson	1981	38:27	First person to swim the channel three ways.

Fastest swims

Most Crossingss by one person

Record	Swimmer	Time	Date		Record	Swimmer	Crossings
Men	Petar Stoychev	6:57	24 August 2007		Men	Kevin Murphy	34
Men Two ways	Philip Rush	16:10	1987		Men Two ways	Kevin Murphy	3
Men Three ways	Philip Rush	28:21	1987		Men Three ways	Jon Erikson, Philip Rush	1
Women	Yvetta Hlaváčová	7:25	2006		Women	Alison Streeter	43
Women Two ways	Susie Maroney	17:14	1991		Women Two ways	Cynthia Nicholas	5
					Women Three ways	Alison Streeter	1

 

 

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