OmniathlonOWS
English Channel — United Kingdom

Dungeness - Hythe

18.9 km
Distance
Dungeness ↔ Hythe
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. 1950
    First crossingWilly van Rysel
  2. 1950
    First womanWilly van Rysel
  3. 1950
    First from countryWilly van Rysel🇳🇱 Netherlands

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.