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Route — South Africa

False Bay Diagonal (Cape Point - Gordon's Bay)

39.4 km
Distance
Cape Point ↔ Bikini Beach, Gordon's Bay
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. Jan 4, 2023
    First crossingAndrea Turkovic13:12:07
  2. Jan 4, 2023
    First from countryAndrea Turkovic🇬🇧 United Kingdom13:12:07
  3. Jan 4, 2023
    RecordAndrea TurkovicWetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo · 13:12:07

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.

Source: Cape Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.