England Photo Index - Main UK Photo Index

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There have been many athletes who tried to swim across the Channel and a few have succeeded. The first man to swim it was Captain Matthew Webb, an Englishman, in 1875. The first woman who swam across was an American girl, Gertrude Ederle, in 1926.