16-year-old Indian girl creates history by swimming across The English Channel

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 31 (ANI): A 16-year-old girl, Jiya Rai, with autism spectrum disorder, successfully swam across the English Channel, a distance of 34 km, in 17 hours and 25 minutes and became the youngest and fastest para swimmer in the world to achieve this feat in solo swimming.

In the 150-year history of channel swimming, Jiya who is the daughter of Madan Rai, MC-at-Arms II, Indian Navy, is the first