OmniathlonOWS
English Channel — United Kingdom

Lulworth Cove - Weymouth

14.7 km
Distance
Lulworth Cove ↔ Weymouth
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. 1951
    First crossingGodfrey Chapman10:50
  2. 1951
    First from countryGodfrey Chapman🇬🇧 United Kingdom10:50
  3. 1951
    RecordGodfrey ChapmanSkin · Solo · 10:50

Crossings per decade

12195019601970

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.