Lake Ontario — Canada

Lake Ontario – Port Dalhousie to Oakville

42.1 km
Distance
Lakeside Park, Port Dalhousie, Ontario ↔ Oakville, Ontario
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Crossings marked «documented» are historical: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones.

Traditional knitted textile swimsuit, cap and goggles: no wetsuit and no tech suit; no contact with the boat and no drafting behind it.

Podium · Skin · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    18:09:24 · Aug 12, 2011 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    19:49:57 · Aug 2, 2021 · 2 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    Rob Kent🇨🇦
    20:52:50 · Aug 13, 2012 · 3 in Skin · Solo

4 of 6

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Melanie PriceAug 12, 201118:09:24
2Rob McGlashanAug 2, 202119:49:57
3Rob KentAug 13, 201220:52:50
4Madhu NagarajaJul 28, 201224:26:03

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: Solo Swims of Ontario. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.