Bering Strait — Russia

Cape Dezhnev - Cape Prince of Wales

89.1 km
Distance
Cape Dezhnev ↔ Cape Prince of Wales
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data
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Crossings
26
Swimmers
80
Countries
16
Women
22%
Median time
—
Busiest month
August

Crossings per year

Each bar is a year, split between skin and wetsuit.

24201220132014
SkinWetsuit and other assisted swimwear
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YearCrossingsSkinWetsuit and other assisted swimwearBestMedian time
2014202——
2013505——
2012101——

When people swim it

The month with most crossings is August.

24JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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MonthCrossings%
January00%
February00%
March00%
April00%
May00%
June00%
July00%
August4100%
September00%
October00%
November00%
December00%

Women and men

22%Women
  • Women2 · 8%
  • Men7 · 27%
  • Relays or not stated17 · 65%

Equipment and format

26Crossings
  • Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Relay26 · 100%

Where swimmers come from

16Countries
  • 🇦🇷 Argentina6 · 32%
  • 🇷🇺 Russia6 · 32%
  • 🇦🇺 Australia1 · 5%
  • 🇨🇱 Chile1 · 5%
  • 🇪🇪 Estonia1 · 5%
  • 🇮🇹 Italy1 · 5%
  • 🇺🇦 Ukraine1 · 5%
  • 2 other countries2 · 11%

Countries

  • 🇦🇷 Argentina6
  • 🇷🇺 Russia6
  • 🇦🇺 Australia1
  • 🇨🇱 Chile1
  • 🇪🇪 Estonia1
  • 🇮🇹 Italy1
  • 🇺🇦 Ukraine1
  • 🇺🇸 United States1
  • 🇿🇦 South Africa1
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CountryCrossingsWomenBestFirst from the country
🇦🇷 Argentina60—Matias Juan Ola🇦🇷, Roman Efimov, Vladimir Litvinov, Dmitrii Zalka, Zhou Hanming, Paolo Chiarino🇮🇹, Vladimir Chegorin, Vladimir Poshivailov, Elena Guseva🇷🇺, Nuala Moore🇮🇪, Oleg Docuckaev, Tatiana Alexandrova🇷🇺, Cristian Vergara🇨🇱, Toomas Haggi🇪🇪, Maria Chizhova🇷🇺, Roman Belan, Evgenii Dokuchaev, Ram Barkai🇿🇦, Alexei Golubkin, Eduard Khodakovskiy, Zdenek Tlamicha🇨🇿, Dmitrii Filitovich, Craig Alan Lenning🇺🇸, Oksana Veklich, Irina Lamkina, Mariia Yrjo-Koskinen🇫🇮, Alekseev Semen, Natalia Seraya, Aleksandr Jakovlevs, Oleg Adamov🇷🇺, Toks Viviers🇿🇦, Grigorii Prokopchuk🇷🇺, Ivan Papulshenko🇺🇦, Victor Moskvin, Andrey Kuzmin, Alexsandr Iurkov, Afanasii Diackovskii, Melissa O'Reilly🇺🇸, Alexander Brylin, Aleksandr Kuliapin, Jack Bright, Nataliia Usachaeva, Elena Semenova, Anne-Marie Ward🇮🇪, Alexander Golubkin, Olga Filitovich, Alexei Tabakov, Nikolay Petshak, Oleg Ivanov, Andrey Mikhalev, Ryan Christofer Stramrood🇿🇦, Sergey Popov, Olga Sokolova, Viacheslav Shaposhnikov, Vladimir Nefatov, James Pittar🇦🇺, Aleksandr Komarov, Henri Kaarma🇪🇪, Jackie Cobell🇬🇧, Andrei Agarkov, Victor Godlevskiy, Olga Golubeva, Andrew Chin🇿🇦, Pavel Kabakov, Rafał Ziobro🇵🇱, Andrei Sychev · 2013
🇷🇺 Russia61—Oleg Dokuchaev🇷🇺 · Aug 2013
🇦🇺 Australia10——
🇨🇱 Chile10——
🇪🇪 Estonia10——
🇮🇹 Italy10——
🇺🇦 Ukraine10—Ivan Papulshenko🇺🇦 · 2013
🇺🇸 United States10——
🇿🇦 South Africa11——

Where swimmers land

  • Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, USA16
  • Cape Prince of Wales, USA4
  • Cape Prince of Wales3
  • Cape Prince of Wales in the state of Alaska, USA3

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.