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Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Eltham, Greater London, Great Britain |
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Sport | Swimming |
Thomas Gregory (born 1976) swam the English Channel in 1988 at the age of 11 years and 330 days. As of 2023 [update] he still holds the record as the youngest person to have done so. [1]
Gregory's coming-of-age story about being the youngest person to swim the Channel, A Boy in the Water (2018, Penguin: ISBN 9780241354124) was joint winner of the 2018 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. [2] It was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in August 2018. [3] He served in the Royal Anglian Regiment of the British Army. [4] [5]