sentences:  12 September 1911 Swann set the record for rowing across the English Channel in a single with a row of 3 hours and 50 minutes.Swann was a member of Leander Club and was the sole Cambridge man in the Leander eight which won the gold medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was the first Manx person to have won an Olympic Gold, and it would not be until 2012 until another Manx person won a Gold.