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Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Norton, Caroline (1808–1877) views 2,759,187 updated. Norton, Caroline (1808–1877) English author who, through personal experience, became an authority on, and campaigner for the reform of, the law relating to women. Name variations: Caroline Sheridan, Lady Stirling-Maxwell; (pseudonym)Pearce Stevenson.
- Long-Distance Swimmer
- Trained in The Persian Gulf
- Crossed The Catalina Channel
- Retired from Swimming
- Chadwick's Legacy
- Further Reading
Chadwick knew she excelled at endurance swimming, especially in open water. This kind of swimming demands special talents and a perseverance far beyond that expected of shorter-distance athletes. The English Channel was considered the greatest challenge by swimmers in Chadwick's time. (Since then, it has been surpassed by the crossing of the Cook S...
Chadwick got a job working for the Arabian-American Oil Company, moved to Saudi Arabia with the company, and began training in the rough waters of the Persian Gulf. Dedicated to her goal, she swam before and after work, and trained for up to ten hours a day on her days off. In June 1950, Chadwick left her job and went to France to attempt her first...
On July 4, 1952, at the age of 34, Chadwick attempted to become the first woman to swim 21 miles across the Catalina Channel, from Catalina Island to Palos Verde on the California coast. The weather that day was not auspicious-the ocean was ice cold, the fog was so thick that she could hardly see the support boats that followed her, and sharks prow...
After retiring from swimming, Chadwick worked as a stockbroker in San Diego and continued to coach young people and promote long-distance swimming. She later served as vice president of First Wall StreetCorporation. She was the only female member on the San Diego "Hall of Champions" board. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fa...
Chadwick easily broke many records set by men, shattering the notion that women were unfit for long-distance swimming. Today women hold many ultra long-distance records in swimming and other sports. Currently, the only person ever to have swum the English Channel three times consecutively is a woman. Chadwick was one of the pioneers. She helped to ...
Hickok, Ralph. A Who's Who of Sports Champions,Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Levinson, David, and Karen Christensen. Encyclopedia of World Sport From Ancient Times to the Present,ABC-CLIO, 1996. Markell, Robert, Nancy Brooks, and Susan Markel. For the Record: Women in Sports,World Almanac Publications, 1985. Sparhawk, Ruth M., Mary E. Leslie, Phyllis Y. ...
