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Hudson River — United States

George Washington Bridge - Tappan Zee Bridge

24.8 km
Distance
Tappan Zee Bridge ↔ George Washington Bridge
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Tappan Zee Bridge ↔ George Washington Bridge: 24.8 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 123 crossings by swimmers from 8 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: New York Open Water. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.