OmniathlonOWS
North Sea — United Kingdom

Clacton - Walton

9.7 km
Distance
Clacton ↔ Walton
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. 1972
    First crossingKevin Murphy
  2. 1972
    First from countryKevin Murphy🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  3. 1978
    RecordChristopher Carter · Race · 2:18
  4. 1983
    RecordChris StockdaleSkin · Solo · 2:43

Crossings per decade

12319701980

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.