Sal Minty-Gravett

Sal was inducted as an Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2005. She is the President of the Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club and has taught many to enjoy swimming and open water swimming. She has successfully crossed the English Channel four separate times over the course of four sequential decades and will attempt an unprecedented 82-mile double circumnavigation of Jersey Island in 2012. She received the Centenary Cup award from the Channel Swimming Association in 1975 for being the 'Fastest Swim of the Year by a British Person' across the English Channel. Sally is the only woman to have swum the Channel in four different decades.