OmniathlonOWS
Lake Taupo — New Zealand

north - south

22.9 km
Distance
north ↔ south
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. Feb 25, 1978
    First crossingJohn Coutts10:47
  2. Feb 25, 1978
    First from countryJohn Coutts🇳🇿 New Zealand10:47
  3. Feb 25, 1978
    RecordJohn CouttsSkin · Solo · 10:47
  4. Mar 8, 1980
    First womanBelinda Shields15:58

Crossings per decade

12319701980

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.