Lake Ontario — Canada · United States

Lake Ontario – Sackets Harbor (NY) to Kingston (ON)

42.5 km
Distance
Sackets Harbor, New York ↔ Confederation Basin, Kingston, Ontario
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Crossings marked «documented» are historical: 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
    23:15 · Aug 27, 2007 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    John Munro🇨🇦
    35:15 · Aug 12, 2003 · 2 in Skin · Solo

2 of 4

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Natalie LambertAug 27, 200723:15
2John MunroAug 12, 200335:15

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: Solo Swims of Ontario. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.