Lake Memphremagog — Canada · United States

Magog - Newport

36.6 km
Distance
Newport City Docks, Newport, Vermont ↔ Magog, Quebec
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
    9:08 · 1985 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    9:16 · 1984 · 2 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    18:35 · Aug 21, 1955 · 3 in Skin · Solo
  4. 3
    18:35 · Aug 21, 1955 · 3 in Skin · Solo

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Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Steven Munatones19859:08documented
2Steven Munatones19849:16documented
3William Francis Billy O'ConnorAug 21, 195518:35documented
3William Francis Billy O'ConnorAug 21, 195518:35documented
—Osama Ahmed Momtaz1988—documented
—Gustavo Oriozabala1991—documented
—Gustavo Oriozabala1992—documented
—Gustavo Oriozabala1994—documented

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: Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.