Nothing great is easy. Captain Matthew Webb 1875 Outstanding everything is the courage of the lonely swimmer, and in him was the same stuff which has enabled man to stand on the top of Mount EverestBishop of Rochester at the funeral of Ted May, Channel Swimmer, 1954
1926 Luis Rodriguez de Lara (disputed)
1954 Ted May
1984 Kumar Anandan
1988 Renata Agondi
1999 Fausta Marin Moreno
2001 Ueli Staub
2012 Páraic Casey
2013 Susan Taylor
2016 Nick Thomas
2017 Douglas Waymark