Channel Swim news


Channel swimmer comes home to hero’s welcome

ROGER ALLSOPP arrived home yesterday to a hero’s welcome.


Channel world record holder ‘should be Sir Roger Allsopp’

RECORD-BREAKING Channel swimmer Roger Allsopp should be knighted, islanders said yesterday.


Channel mastered at 70

ROGER ALLSOPP has become the oldest person to swim across the English Channel.


Roger starts record bid

AFTER a week of waiting, Roger Allsopp’s record-breaking Channel swim attempt finally got under way today.


Roger, 70, is out to become oldest Channel swimmer

RETIRED surgeon Roger Allsopp is hoping to become the oldest person to swim the Channel.


Seven hours in ‘graveyard’ but Davey swims the Channel

AN ADVOCATE has braved bad weather, strong tides and injury to swim the English Channel.


The perfect ending

CHANNEL swimmers Becky Simmons and Paul Mason yesterday arrived home to a hero’s welcome.


Channel conquered

BECKY SIMMONS has made history by becoming the first Guernsey-born person to swim the English Channel.


Swimmers set for the big one

TWO swimmers are setting off today on their first step in attempting the “Everest of swimming” – the English Channel.


The wind calls time on Channel swim bid

JUST five miles from France, Naomi Wakeford was forced to abandon her bid to become the island's first female Channel swimmer.

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