OmniathlonOWS
Coniston — United Kingdom

Coniston Water Length

7.9 km
Distance
High Nibthwaite ↔ Waterhead
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

High Nibthwaite ↔ Waterhead: 7.9 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 64 crossings by swimmers from 3 countries.

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.

Source: British Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.