Lake Erie — Canada

Port Colborne - Sturgeon Point

27.3 km
Distance
Port Colborne, Ontario ↔ Sturgeon Point, New York
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
    Vicki Keith🇨🇦
    10:24 · Jul 1988 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 1
    Vicki Keith🇨🇦
    10:24 · Jul 1, 1988 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    14:15 · Sep 21, 2006 · 3 in Skin · Solo

3 of 4

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Vicki KeithJul 198810:24documented
1Vicki KeithJul 1, 198810:24
3Chris StockdaleSep 21, 200614:15

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.