Sporting Witness - Tom Gregory - The 11-Year-Old who Swam the Channel

Tom Gregory - The 11-Year-Old who Swam the Channel

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In September 1988, 11-year-old South London schoolboy Tom Gregory set a world record that still stands for being the youngest swimmer to cross the English Channel. He has just published a memoir entitled "A Boy In The Water". Tom Gregory talks to Simon Watts.

(Photo: Tom Gregory. Credit: Penguin Books)


Published on Saturday, 15th September 2018.

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