OmniathlonOWS
The Wash — United Kingdom

Hunstanton - Skegness

23.8 km
Distance
Hunstanton ↔ Skegness
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. 1973
    First crossingKevin Murphy13:54
  2. 1973
    First from countryKevin Murphy🇬🇧 United Kingdom13:54
  3. 1973
    RecordKevin MurphySkin · Solo · 13:54
  4. 1976
    RecordKevin MurphySkin · Solo · 7:47

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.