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Ta, always very interested in these sex-specific athletic top end issues. I take it Alison Streeter holds the record for fastest single crossing or something like that?
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It's an Aussie guy who has the record for the fastest crossing - he sat in Dover all summer waiting for a perfect tide - his S-curve is actually a straight line, never seen one remotely like it.
A previous record stood for over 20 years, then some guy broke it, and held it for 20 minutes, as the guy following him was even faster. That's gotta smart...
The speed records are all male, but I think the longest ever single crossing was a woman - about 28 hours. I know a guy who did a 28 hour crossing, but in a wetsuit, so it doesn't count.
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I really don't know - iirc, there have been three people who have done three and got partway into their fourth, and two of those were male. I reckon if you can get to 3.5, with better conditions/training/more luck, you can do 4.
Interesting that there are two guys who've been battling (often quite petulantly) over the King of the Channel title, for most crossings - one of them was the observer on yesterday's swim. Neither of them are anywhere near Alison Streeter's record as Queen of the Channel.