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ENGEnglandSport:SwimmingAlison Streeter is an English marathon swimmer whose career includes 43 English Channel crossings. She combined repeated solo crossings with increasingly demanding multi-way swims: her Hall of Fame record includes three doubles and one triple. In 1983 she became the first British woman to complete a two-way crossing, taking 21 hours and 16 minutes.
On 2–3 August 1990 she became the first woman to complete a continuous three-way English Channel swim. The England–France–England–France effort lasted 34 hours and 40 minutes, extending a career already distinguished by her first female North Channel crossing in 1988.
Her wider achievements included Catalina, Manhattan Island and Jersey swims. Awarded an MBE for services to swimming, she also used her swims to support charitable fundraising. Her career total counts individual Channel crossings, so a three-way effort contributes three crossings while remaining one continuous swim.
43 career crossings · first woman to complete a three-way swim
Crossing details, recordings & verificationSolo swim
Thursday, 2 August 1990 – Friday, 3 August 1990
England → France → England → France
Elapsed time · 34h 40m
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratifying body's record checked · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo swim
Wednesday, 3 August 1983 (recorded swim date)
England–France–England
Elapsed time · 21h 16m
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratifying body's record checked · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo swim
Tuesday, 20 September 1988 (recorded swim date)
France–England
Elapsed time · 8h 48m
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratifying body's record checked · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo swim
Friday, 21 July 1995 (recorded swim date)
England–France–England
Elapsed time · 20h 55m
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratifying body's record checked · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo swim
Tuesday, 31 August 1982 (recorded swim date)
England → France
Elapsed time · 11h 21m 0s
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratification reported by source · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo swim
Wednesday, 5 August 1992 (recorded swim date)
England → France → England
Elapsed time · 22h 20m
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratifying body's record checked · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo swim
Saturday, 24 July 2004 (recorded swim date)
England → France
Elapsed time · 12h 35m 0s
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Published account checked · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo swim
Thursday, 26 July 1984 (recorded swim date)
England–France
Elapsed time · 10h 6m 0s
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratification reported by source · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo swim
Sunday, 28 September 1986 (recorded swim date)
England–France
Elapsed time · 11h 3m
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratifying body's record checked · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo · 1-way
England–France
Friday, 26 July 1996 (recorded swim date)
Elapsed time · 9h 30m 0s
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratification reported by source · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Solo · 1-way
France–England
Tuesday, 20 August 1996 (recorded swim date)
Elapsed time · 9h 31m
Start clock · Clock time not confirmed
Finish clock · Clock time not confirmed
Ratifying body's record checked · See the crossing record for qualifications and supporting evidence.
Open-water swimming · Solo swim
Monday, 20 August 1984 (event date)
Catalina Channel, California, USA
Completed the Catalina-to-mainland crossing.
Elapsed time · 9h 33m
Ratifying body's record checked · Details and qualifications are in the career evidence.
Open-water swimming · Solo swim
Friday, 25 August 1989 (event date)
North Channel
Completed the Scotland-to-Northern-Ireland crossing.
Elapsed time · 10h 4m 0s
Published account checked · Details and qualifications are in the career evidence.
1983
England–France–England in 21h 16m.
1988
Became the first woman to swim the North Channel.
2–3 August 1990
Completed England–France–England–France in 34h 40m.
Career total
The total includes multi-way legs, not 43 separate continuous attempts.
Tuesday, 20 September 1988
CSA records 8:48; the historical database provides the day.
Tuesday, 31 August 1982
The historical register records 11:21:00 and a Wissant landing with Ray Dixon piloting Channel Express.
Wednesday, 5 August 1992
Completed a 22:20 return swim from Shakespeare Beach via France to Folkestone.
Saturday, 24 July 2004
CS&PF’s successful-swims table records 12:35:00, with a historical landing note at Cap Gris Nez.
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First recorded finish
1 more finish needed
0 of 1 recorded
Selected swimming performances appear in the English Channel record above.
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