Downstream

ways non-stop, in 1990. The
press, always alert to a
woman’s physical
appearance, described her as
‘5ft 4in and stocky with it,
Streeter is built for battling
the waves’. A currency
trader, she was known to field
phone calls from her
employers during Channel
crossings, saying, ‘it gives me
something to think about’.
Ninety per cent of an
endurance swim is down to