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Alison Streeter
Alison Jane Streeter MBE (born 1964) is a British long-distance swimmer. She has swum across the English Channel 43 times, more than anyone in the world and earning her the title of Queen of the English Channel. This total includes a triple-channel swim. She also completed seven Channel crossings in one year. She set the female record for a Channel swim from France to England (8 hours 48 minutes), in 1988. She was the first woman to swim the Channel three ways
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Records held.
- First person to complete a 3 way swim of Windermere (30.75 miles) on 20 July 1972.
- First person to complete a 4 way swim of Windermere (41 miles) on 20 July 1972.
- First person to swim Loch Tay (14 miles) in August 1973.
- First person to swim Loch Lomond (21.6 miles) twice.
- Most English Channel Swims in a Year by a man - 6 in 1979. (Alison Streeter holds