List of successful English Channel swimmers
First swims (roughly 37 swims)

List of successful English Channel swimmers

Section Title: First swims (roughly 37 swims)
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Direction	Country of origin	Swimmer	Year	Time	Notes

England to France	United Kingdom	Matthew Webb	1875	21:45	First crossing from England to France on 25 August 1875.

England to France	United Kingdom	Thomas William Burgess	1911	22:35	Second crossing from England to France.

England to France	United Kingdom	Henry Sullivan	1923	26:50	Third crossing from England to France.

France to England	Argentina	Enrique Tirabocchi	1923	16:33	First crossing from France to England.

France to England	United States	Charles Toth	1923	16:58	Third crossing from France to England.

France to England	United States	Gertrude Ederle	1926	14:39	First woman to cross in either direction.

France to England	United States	Amelia Gade Corson	1926	15:29	First mother to cross from England to France.

France to England	United Kingdom	Mercedes Gleitze	1927	15:15	First British woman to cross the English Channel.

France to England	United Kingdom	Hilda "Laddie" Sharp	1928	14:58	15th to cross and the 5th fastest.

France to England	South Africa	Margaret Duncan	1930	16:17	First woman from South Africa to swim the English Channel.

France to England	United Kingdom	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 18 August 1934.

England to France to England	United States	Florence Chadwick	1953	14:42	First woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.

France to England	Canada	Winnie Leuszler	1951	13:25	First Canadian to swim the English Channel.

England to France	Mexico	Damian Pizá Beltran	1953	15:23	First Mexican to swim the English Channel.

France to England	Portugal	Joaquim Baptista Pereira [pt]	1954	12:00

France to England	Egypt	Abdellatief Abouheif	1955	11:44	Winner of a special 1955 race from France to England, competed against another 11 male and four female contenders.

France to England	Bangladesh	Brojen Das	1958	First Asian (from Bikrampur, East Pakistan; now Bangladesh) to swim the English Channel, at the English Channel Swimming Competition in 1958.

England to France	India	Mihir Sen	1958	First Indian to swim the English Channel.

France to England	India	Arati Saha	1959	14:20	First Indian woman and first Asian woman to swim the English Channel.

France to England	Macedonia	Niko Nestor	1959	12:06	First Macedonian to swim the English Channel.

England to France to England	Argentina	Antonio Abertondo	1961	43:10	First person to swim the channel both ways non-stop.

France to England	Macedonia	Atina Bojadži	1969	13:20	First Macedonian woman to swim the English Channel.

England to France	Poland	Teresa Zarzeczanska	1975	11:10	First Polish woman to swim the English Channel.

England to France	Poland	Romuald Szopa	1978	12:49	First Polish man to swim the English Channel.

England to France	United Kingdom	Mary Yeats	1979	11:19	First Scottish woman to swim the English Channel.

England to France	United States	Charles Chapman	1981	12:30	First black swimmer to cross the Channel.

England to France to England to France	United States	Jon Erikson	1981	38:27	First person to swim the channel three way.

England to France	United Kingdom	Chris Little	1986	17:23	North Yorkshire Long Distance Club, Youngest person to swim one way until 1988.

England to France	Tunisia	Nejib Belhedi	1993	16:35	First Tunisian to swim the channel, namesake of a trophy for swimming the channel at the highest tide.

England to France	Australia	John Maclean	1998	12:55	First paraplegic to swim the Channel.

England to France	Barbados	Chris Gibbs	2003	11:30	First person from a Caribbean country to swim the English Channel. Aged 58, and member of The Merrymen Calypso band.

England to France	India	Ashwin Krishnasamy	2007	16:07	Youngest successful swimmer (12 years old) to cross the English Channel for the year 2007.

England to France	Bulgaria	Petar Stoychev	2007	6:57	First swimmer to cross the English Channel under 7 hours.

England to France	France	Philippe Croizon	2010	13:28	First quadruple amputee to swim the English Channel.

England to France	Iceland	Sigrún Þuríður Geirsdóttir	2015	22:34	First woman from Iceland to swim the English Channel.

England to France	United Kingdom	Daniel Lee	2008	13:42	First teenager and third youngest British citizen to swim the channel.

England to France	Ecuador	Sara Palacios	2018	12:58	First Ecuadorian citizen and South American Woman to swim the channel.

England to France	United Kingdom	Leah Chowdhry	2018	14:44	First British Asian Woman to swim the Channel

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Enrique Tirabocchi was an Argentinian swimmer who became the fourth person to successfully swim across the English Channel.

final_sentence: Enrique Tirabocchi was an Argentinian swimmer who became the fourth person to successfully swim across the English Channel.