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Richard P. Stanley
Richard P. Stanley in Oberwolfach, 1973
Born (1944-06-23) June 23, 1944 (age 79)
New York City, New York
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
AwardsLeroy P. Steele Prize (2001)
Schock Prize (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorGian-Carlo Rota
Notes
Stanley, Richard (2017). "Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved June 29, 2017.


Direction Country of origin Swimmer Year Time Notes
England to France  United Kingdom Matthew Webb 1875 21:45 First ever crossing; swam from England to France on 25 August 1875.[1]
England to France  United Kingdom Bill Burgess 1911 Second crossing from England to France on 6 September 1911.[2]
England to France  United States Henry Sullivan 1923 26:50 Third crossing from England to France; first American to swim across the English Channel.[1]
France to England  Italy
 Argentina		 Enrique Tirabocchi 1923 16:33 First crossing from France to England.[1]
France to England  United States Gertrude Ederle 1926 14:39 First woman to cross in either direction.[1][3][4]
France to England  United Kingdom Mercedes Gleitze 1927 15:15 First British woman to cross the English Channel.[5]
France to England  South Africa Margaret ('Peggy') Duncan 1930 16:17 First known person from Southern Africa to swim the English Channel.[6]
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.[1][7]
England to France  United States Florence Chadwick 1953 14:42 First woman to swim the English Channel in both directions (on separate occasions).[1]
France to England  Canada Winnie Leuszler 1951 13:25 First Canadian to swim the English Channel.[8][9]
England to France  Mexico Damian Pizá Beltran 1953 15:23 First Mexican to swim the English Channel.
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. Das became a Bangladeshi citizen after the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
England to France  India Mihir Sen 1958 First Indian to swim the English Channel.[10]
France to England  Brazil Abilio Couto 1958 12:45 First South American to swim the English Channel.
France to England  Southern Rhodesia Dennis Pearson 1959 15:36 The second known person, and first man, from Southern Africa to swim the Channel. Pearson, from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, swam across on Bastille Day, 14 July 1959.[6][11]
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.[12]
England to France to England  Argentina Antonio Abertondo 1961 43:10 First person to swim the channel both ways non-stop.
England to France  South Africa Peter Bales 1969 13:38 Second person, and first man, from South Africa to swim the English Channel. He was the third person from Southern Africa to complete the swim.[6][13]
France to England  Macedonia Atina Bojadži 1969 13:20 First Macedonian woman to swim the English Channel.[14]
France to England  Czechoslovakia František Venclovský [cz] 1971 15:26 First Czech (Czechoslovak at that time) to swim the channel.
England to France  Poland Teresa Zarzeczańska 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 ways.
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.[15]
England to France  Australia John Maclean 1998 12:55 First paraplegic to swim the Channel.[16]
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.[17]
England to France  Malaysia Abdul Malik Mydin 2003 17:42 First Malaysian swimmer to cross the English Channel.
England to France  Singapore Thum Ping Tjin 2005 12:24 First Singaporean to swim the Channel.[18]
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.
France to England  Norway Amandine Toso 2017 26:03 First woman from Norway to swim the English Channel.[19]
England to France  Ecuador Sara Palacios 2018 12:58 First Ecuadorian citizen and South American Woman to swim the channel.
England to France  Syria Zeina Alsharkas 2019 11:36 First Syrian woman.[20]
England to France  Chile Bárbara Hernández 2019 12:13 First Chilean woman to swim the English Channel.[21]
England to France to England to France to England  United States Sarah Thomas 2019 54:10 First person to swim the channel four ways non-stop.[22]
  1. ^ a b c d e f Cite error: The named reference suc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Staff. "The Channel Swim: Burgess's Perseverance Rewarded After Fifteen failures", Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12581, 11 October 1911, Page 8. Accessed 5 August 2010.
  3. ^ Severo, Richard (1 December 2003). "Gertrude Ederle, the First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel, Dies at 98". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 August 2009. Gertrude Ederle, who was called America's best girl by President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 after she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, died yesterday at a nursing home in Wyckoff, N.J. She was 98.
  4. ^ She did it in 14 hours 39 minutes, breaking the men's record of the time by two hours. However, this swim attracted some controversy. On 16 August, The Westminster Gazette reported locals as saying that "Miss Ederle swam under the lea of one of the accompanying tugs" while another boat "navigated in such a manner as to keep the heavy seas and tides off her" and that "Miss Ederle was drawn along by the suction of the tug so that she was able to swim at about twice the speed she would have been able to swim under ordinary conditions." The Dover Express and East Kent News commented that "So far little information has been given of the detail of Miss Ederle's swim. The most extraordinary thing about it being that she made no westward drift with the ebb tide, which on the day in question ran westward for nearly seven hours."
  5. ^ The Vindication Swim: Mercedes Gleitze and Rolex take the plunge and become world-renowned, John E Brozak, International Wristwatch Magazine, December 2003, Retrieved 24 September 2015
  6. ^ a b c "English Channel". The History of Aquatic Sports in Southern Africa. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  7. ^ "People of Note". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2010. Edward Temme, a London insurance clerk, was the first man to swim across the Channel both ways, from France to England in August 1927 and from England to France on 18 August 1934.
  8. ^ Bryan Finlay. "A Pioneering Canadian Marathon Swimmer". Soloswims.com. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  9. ^ http://www.soloswims.com/can-chan.htm
  10. ^ Bose, Anjali, Samsad Bangali Chariutabhidhan, Vol II, (in Bengali) p. 268, Sishu Sahitya Samsad Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 81-86806-99-7
  11. ^ Channel Swimming Dover: Channel swimmer, Dennis Pearson. https://www.channelswimmingdover.org.uk/content/photo/channel-swimmer-dennis-pearson
  12. ^ "Niko Nestor, 1st Macedonian to Swim Across The English Channel dies aged 81". Channel Swimming Association. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  13. ^ Openwaterpedia: Peter Bales. https://openwaterpedia.com/wiki/Peter_Bales
  14. ^ "Macedonian swimming great Bojadzi dies at 66". USA Today. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  15. ^ "Nejib BelHedi - Solo Channel Swimmer". Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  16. ^ "Briefs". The Age. 1 September 1998. p. 7.
  17. ^ "United through swimming- Chris Gibbs swims the channel". United Caribbean Trust. 21 August 2003. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  18. ^ "Singapore Cross-English Channel Charity Swim". channel.thum.org. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  19. ^ "SSuccessful English Channel Swims / 2017".
  20. ^ "Syrian lecturer successfully completes English Channel swim | University of Essex". www.essex.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  21. ^ "Bárbara Hernández conquista el Canal de la Mancha". La Tercera. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  22. ^ "Sarah Thomas: Woman First to Swim Channel Four Times Non-stop". BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
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