Palk Strait — Sri Lanka

Point Calimere - Valvettithurai

61.5 km
Distance
Point Calimere ↔ Valvettithurai
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.

Podium · Skin · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    Mihir Sen🇮🇳
    25:44 · Apr 5, 1966 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 1
    Mihir Sen🇮🇳
    25:44 · Apr 5, 1966 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    28:00 · 1954 · 3 in Skin · Solo

4 of 4

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Mihir SenApr 5, 196625:44
1Mihir SenApr 5, 196625:44
3Murugapillai Navratnaswami195428:00
4V.S. Kumar AnandanMar 196342:00

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.