Apolima Strait — Samoa

Apolima Strait crossing

22.7 km
Distance
Savai'i ↔ Upolu
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
    Iosia Leau🇼🇸
    5:00 · 1988 · 1 in Skin · Solo

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Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Iosia Leau19885:00

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.