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Atlantic Ocean — United Kingdom · Ireland

Donegal - Portstewart

20.4 km
Distance
Donegal ↔ Portstewart
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. 1929
    First crossingMercedes Gleitze7:55
  2. 1929
    First womanMercedes Gleitze7:55
  3. 1929
    First from countryMercedes Gleitze🇬🇧 United Kingdom7:55
  4. 1929
    RecordMercedes GleitzeSkin · Solo · 7:55
  5. Aug 16, 1929
    RecordMercedes GleitzeSkin · Solo · 6:55

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.