Mediterranean Sea — Malta

Marina di Modica - St. Julians Bay

92.2 km
Distance
Marina di Modica ↔ St. Julians Bay
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

These crossings are documented: 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. Teams taking turns in the water, in a fixed order.

Podium · Skin · Relay · One-way

  1. 1
    Australian National Swim Team
    19:11 · 1996 · 1 in Skin · Relay
  2. 1
    Australia
    19:11 · Jul 19, 1996 · 1 in Skin · Relay

2 of 2

Pos.↑TeamDateTime
1Australian National Swim Team199619:11
1AustraliaJul 19, 199619:11

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.