OmniathlonOWS
Baltic Sea — Germany

Fehmarn - Warnemünde

69.4 km
Distance
Fehmarn Island ↔ Warnemünde
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. Aug 26, 1925
    First crossingOtto Kemmerich22:56
  2. Aug 26, 1925
    First from countryOtto Kemmerich🇩🇪 Germany22:56
  3. Aug 26, 1925
    RecordOtto KemmerichSkin · Solo · 22:56
  4. 1929
    RecordOtto KemmerichSkin · Solo · 20:00

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.