After winning medals at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, Melanie retired from competitive swimming and wanted “something more.” ...

Mercedes Gleitze was the first British woman to swim the English Channel in 1927. In the same year she also became the first person to swim the Strait of Gibraltar. These were just two of her ...

A local restaurant is holding a fundraiser to help a woman who’s planning a major swim overseas. Amy Wamsley has been ...

This documentary is about Sigrún Þuríður Geirsdóttir, the first Icelandic woman to swim across the English Channel. She is also the first woman to swim the famous Eyjasund (from the Westmann ...

The inspirational story of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel and her battle against both the cold waters of the Channel and the oppressive society of the 1920s ...

A mother of two is aiming to become the first woman to ... hoping to complete the swim in about six hours. Although she has previously done a relay across the English Channel in a team of five ...