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Liane's bid to swim Channel...both ways
A RECORD-breaking former Halifax swimming coach is set to make history again as she faces her next gruelling challenge.
Liane Llewellyn, who used to teach others at Halifax Swimming Club, will attempt to swim a 45- mile round trip across the Channel from Dover to Calais – then back again.
The mammoth swim has only ever been accomplished by 16 other people and will take nearly a day to complete.
If Liane is successful she will be only the third British woman and the first ever Yorkshire swimmer to finish the swim.
She said: "I have been training hard – in and out of the sea – and have been making sure I have been eating right.
"But this will be the real thing. It's a huge challenge."
Liane, 27, lives in Denholme, and works as a senior physiotherapist, completed a one-way swim of the Channel back in 2005.
Last year she became the first woman ever to swim across seven miles of the treacherous Rathlin Sound, off the North Antrim Coast, in Northern Ireland.
She will attempt her Channel crossing later this month.
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