News | Iceland Monitor | Sun 9 Aug 2015 | 12.28 GMT

First Icelandic woman swims the Channel

Sigrún Þuríður Geirsdóttir is the first Icelandic woman to complete a solo swim across the English Channel. Photo/ Facebook

Sigrún Þuríður Geirsdóttir became the first Icelandic woman to swim solo across the English Channel last night. The swim took 23 hours and 30 minutes.

Geirsdóttir set off from Dover on England's south coast around midnight on Friday, Icelandic time, and arrived at the cape of Gris Nez in France around midnight last night.