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Successful English Channel swims / 1959
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Name
Date
Time
Country
1.
1 photo(s)
Brazil
26 September 1959
11:33
Abilio Couto
2.
Argentina
1959
11:43
Alfredo Camarero
3.
3 photo(s)
Lebanon
1959
12:05
Osman Ghandour
4.
Yugoslavia
1959
12:06
Niko Nestor
5.
UK
11 September 1959
12:48
Gordon Hill
6.
Netherlands
27 August 1959
12:49
Herman Willemse
6.
4 photo(s)
Brazil
29 September 1959
12:49
Abilio Couto
8.
Spain
1959
12:53
Rodolfo Rodriguez
9.
1 photo(s)
Portugal
27 August 1959
13:12
Baptista Pereira
10.
Denmark
27 August 1959
13:17
Helge Jensen
11.
Pakistan
22 September 1959
13:26
Brojen Das
12.
India
10 September 1959
13:50
Bimal Chundra
13.
Pakistan
27 August 1959
13:53
Brojen Das
14.
Mexico
9 September 1959
14:44
Miguel Gonzalez Lopez
15.
USA
10 September 1959
15:00
Paul Herron
16.
1 photo(s)
Iraq
27 August 1959
15:17
Ala El-Din Al-Nawab
17.
USA
27 August 1959
15:25
Greta Andersen
18.
USA
27 August 1959
15:35
Myra Thompson
19.
Rhodesia
1959
15:36
Denis Pearson
20.
India
29 September 1959
16:20
Arati Saha
21.
UK (England)
27 August 1959
18:01
William Bristow
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