OmniathlonOWS
Lake Michigan — United States

Chicago - Kenosha

80.5 km
Distance
Chicago ↔ Kenosha
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. 1962
    First crossingTed Erikson35:37
  2. 1962
    First from countryTed Erikson🇺🇸 United States35:37
  3. 1962
    RecordTed EriksonSkin · Solo · 35:37

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.