OmniathlonOWS
English Channel — United Kingdom

Dover - Folkestone

10.7 km
Distance
Dover ↔ Folkestone
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Timeline

Computed from the recorded crossings: the first, the first by sex, the first from each country and every record broken.

  1. 1972
    First crossingKevin Murphy1:51
  2. 1972
    First from countryKevin Murphy🇬🇧 United Kingdom1:51
  3. 1972
    RecordKevin MurphySkin · Solo · 1:51
  4. 1982
    First from countryUlrich Haevecker🇩🇪 Germany
  5. 1994
    First from countryJohn Van Wisse🇦🇺 Australia

Crossings per decade

12197019801990

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.