channel swimming

It was our, our answer to cross channel swimming.

Read retired from Channel swimming in 1984.

There have been 904 solo swims since 1875, the Channel Swimming Association said.

Michael Read, president of the Channel Swimming Association, received the same honour.

Davis Hart, physician & English channel swimming world record holder, 1972.

It took a persistent campaign, he said, to persuade the Channel Swimming Association to authorize his first attempt in 1984.

He was invited to take part in the English Channel Swimming Competition in 1958.

President of the Channel Swimming Association.

'It was me reading about the Channel swimming that started it all, was it not?'

The number of swims conducted under and ratified by the Channel Swimming Association to 2005 was 982 by 665 people.

Channel Swimming Association: Presidents.

Taylor is the secretary of the Channel Swimming Association, a semi-official organization that keeps track of and registers all attempted crossings.

Michael Peter Read, pres, Channel Swimming Assoc, for serv swimming.

The title as well the accompanied Letona Trophy is awarded by the Channel Swimming Association.

He joined the Channel Swimming Association (CSA) in 1969, making his first crossing that year and became a committee member in 1973.

He received a check for 1,000 Pounds from the Daily Sketch and was awarded a gold medal for his efforts by the Channel Swimming Club.

I was wearing only a Speedo, a swimming cap and goggles in accordance with English Channel Swimming Association rules.

Ray Scott, an officer of the 67-year-old Channel Swimming Association, which monitors and sanctions each attempt, acknowledges that much of the public fascination with the event has faded.

The Channel Swimming Association initially refused to recognise his feat, but set up a committee to evaluate "special swims" once they were convinced that he was a serious swimmer.

Since then, no one older has even tried it, said Michael Oram, secretary of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation, one of two English organizations that oversee the swims.

LEAD: An 11-year-old English boy crawled ashore in Dover yesterday after setting a record as the youngest person to swim the English Channel, the Channel Swimming Association said.

The CSA was dissolved in 1999 and was succeeded by two separate organisations: CSA (Ltd) and the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CSPF).

The English "Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation" and the "Channel Swimming Association" state that "one standard swim cap" may be used for official English Channel record swims.

He trained for 9 months with Professor Greg Whyte of the English Institute for Sport and was also helped by the "King of the Channel", Mike Read, chairman of the Channel Swimming Association.

These facts cause some dispute for establishing world marathon swimming records, as FINA, Channel swimming, and other marathon swimming rules do not allow unnaccompanied or wetsuit swims to compete with standard swim records ([1])