Atlantic Ocean — South Africa

Muizenberg - Simonstown

10.0 km
Distance
Muizenberg ↔ Simonstown
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
    2:18 · 1990 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    Lewis Pugh🇬🇧
    4:40 · Mar 28, 1992 · 2 in Skin · Solo

2 of 8

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Annemie Landmeters19902:18
2Lewis PughMar 28, 19924:40

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.