Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Bula Choudhury (Born- 1970, Hugli, India) is a former national women's swimming champion of India. She is the first woman to cross seven seas. She twice swam the English Channel first in 1989 and again in 1999. She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1990. She is now is planning to establish a swimming academy in Kolkata. She is a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) legislator from Nandanpur in West Midnapore district in West Bengal. She was also awarded Padma Shri award.Her first national competition, at agenine, she dominated her age group bywinning six gold medals in six events. Shecontinued to improve, winning variousjunior and national championships, as wellas six gold medals at the 1991 South AsianFederation Games.Chowdhury started long-distance swimming in 1989 and crossed the English Channel that year. She won the 81-km (50- mile) Murshidabad Long Distance Swim in1996, and in 1999 she crossed the EnglishChannel again. In 2005 she became thefirst woman to have swum across seachannels off five continents—including the Strait of Gibraltar, the Tyrrhenian Sea, Cook Strait, Toroneos Gulf (Gulf of Kassándra) in Greece, the Catalina Channeloff the California coast, and from ThreeAnchor Bay to Robben Island near CapeTown, South Africa)."@en }
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- Bula_Choudhury abstract "Bula Choudhury (Born- 1970, Hugli, India) is a former national women's swimming champion of India. She is the first woman to cross seven seas. She twice swam the English Channel first in 1989 and again in 1999. She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1990. She is now is planning to establish a swimming academy in Kolkata. She is a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) legislator from Nandanpur in West Midnapore district in West Bengal. She was also awarded Padma Shri award.Her first national competition, at agenine, she dominated her age group bywinning six gold medals in six events. Shecontinued to improve, winning variousjunior and national championships, as wellas six gold medals at the 1991 South AsianFederation Games.Chowdhury started long-distance swimming in 1989 and crossed the English Channel that year. She won the 81-km (50- mile) Murshidabad Long Distance Swim in1996, and in 1999 she crossed the EnglishChannel again. In 2005 she became thefirst woman to have swum across seachannels off five continents—including the Strait of Gibraltar, the Tyrrhenian Sea, Cook Strait, Toroneos Gulf (Gulf of Kassándra) in Greece, the Catalina Channeloff the California coast, and from ThreeAnchor Bay to Robben Island near CapeTown, South Africa).".