SWIMMING 18-YEAR-OLD YORKSHIRE SWIMMER CONQUERS CHANNEL
P.A. LONDON, August 24. Philip Mickman, an eighteen-year-old Yorkshire schoolboy, today swam the English Channel from the French coast. Mickman landed at Kingsdown near Deal at 4.33 a.m., G.M.T., twenty-three hours thirteen minutes after entering the water at Cap Gris Nez. Mickman is the youngest swimmer yet to conquer the English Channel. This was his third attempt. Mickman’s forty-five year-old trainer, E. H. Temme, has himself crossed the Channel both ways. The Channel been conquered twenty eight times since Captain Webb first swam it in 1875.
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Grey River Argus, 25 August 1949, Page 7
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