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Eileen Fenton
First woman to swim the English Channel (born 1928) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eileen Fenton, MBE (born June 1928) was the first woman to swim the English Channel, accomplishing the feat on 26 September 1950.[1][2] Fenton completed the swim as a competitor in the First Daily Mail Channel Race. There were 24 competitors in the race and less than half of these finished.[2] She finished in a time of 15hrs 31mins, and received a winner's cheque of £1000.[3]
In 2019, she received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday honours for voluntary service to Long Distance and Competitive Swimming Coaching in Yorkshire and Great Britain.[4]
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