OmniathlonOWS
North Sea — United Kingdom

Sandsend - Whitby

4.1 km
Distance
Sandsend ↔ Whitby
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. 1964
    First crossingBryan Finlay1:04:06
  2. 1964
    First from countryBryan Finlay🇬🇧 United Kingdom1:04:06
  3. 1964
    RecordBryan FinlaySkin · Solo · 1:04:06

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.