OmniathlonOWS
Palk Strait — Sri Lanka

Point Calimere - Valvettithurai

61.5 km
Distance
Point Calimere ↔ Valvettithurai
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. 1954
    First crossingMurugapillai Navratnaswami28:00
  2. 1954
    RecordMurugapillai NavratnaswamiSkin · Solo · 28:00
  3. Apr 5, 1966
    First from countryMihir Sen🇮🇳 India25:44
  4. Apr 5, 1966
    RecordMihir SenSkin · Solo · 25:44

Crossings per decade

12319501960

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.