Atlantic Ocean — United Kingdom · Ireland

Donegal - Portstewart

20.4 km
Distance
Donegal ↔ Portstewart
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

These crossings are documented: 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
    6:55 · Aug 16, 1929 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    7:55 · 1929 · 2 in Skin · Solo

3 of 3

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Mercedes GleitzeAug 16, 19296:55
2Mercedes Gleitze19297:55
—Mercedes GleitzeAug 20, 1929—

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.