A Medley Of Records In The Channel
Most people swim freestyle across the English Channel (EC) and Catalina Channel (CC), but a select few like doing other strokes. The fastest of those non-freestylers include:
Fastest EC Butterfly: Julie Bradshaw, (UK), 2002, 14:18
Fastest CC Butterfly: Vicki Keith (Canada), 1989, 14:53:26
Fastest EC Backstroke: Tina Neill, (USA), 2005, 13:22
Fastest CC Backstroke: Tina Neill (USA), 2008, 10:37
Fastest EC Breaststroke: Frederik Jaques (Belgium), 2005, 13:31
Fastest CC Breaststroke: Jason Lassen (USA), 2010, 15:59
Photo above shows Vicki Keith; video above shows Julie Bradshaw.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010).
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