OmniathlonOWS
Lake Taupo — New Zealand

Length of Lake Taupo

40.0 km
Distance
Little Waihi, Lake Taupō ↔ Taupō (Yacht Club)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Little Waihi, Lake Taupō ↔ Taupō (Yacht Club): 40.0 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 151 crossings by swimmers from 10 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 Zealand Open Water Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.