Tyrrhenian Sea — Italy

Capri - Naples

31.9 km
Distance
Capri ↔ Naples
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

These crossings are documented: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones.

Traditional knitted textile swimsuit, cap and goggles: no wetsuit and no tech suit; no contact with the boat and no drafting behind it.

Podium · Skin · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    8:45 · 1986 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    11:33 · 1982 · 2 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    12:00 · 1949 · 3 in Skin · Solo

5 of 8

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Alison Streeter19868:45
2Chris Stockdale198211:33
3Aldo Fioravanti194912:00
—Marwan Shedid1969—
—Gustavo Oriozabala1991—

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.