OmniathlonOWS
North Sea — Netherlands

Katwijk - Scheveningen

13.1 km
Distance
Katwijk ↔ Scheveningen
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. 1955
    First crossingWilly van Rysel
  2. 1955
    First womanWilly van Rysel
  3. 1955
    First from countryWilly van Rysel🇳🇱 Netherlands

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.