OmniathlonOWS
Pacific Ocean — Australia

Sydney - Wollongong

60.9 km
Distance
Sydney ↔ Wollongong
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. Dec 1974
    First crossingDes Renford27:30:42
  2. Dec 1974
    First from countryDes Renford🇦🇺 Australia27:30:42
  3. Dec 1974
    RecordDes RenfordAssisted · Solo · 27:30:42

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.