Ullswater — United Kingdom

Ullswater Length

11.2 km
Distance
Glenridding ↔ Pooley Bridge
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
    2:43:49 · 2004 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    2:50:26 · 2003 · 2 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    2:52:09 · Aug 12, 2000 · 3 in Skin · Solo

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Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Darron Corden20042:43:49
2Nathan Renshaw20032:50:26
3Nathan RenshawAug 12, 20002:52:09
4Richard Davidson20042:58:43
5Oliver WhiteAug 19, 20023:23:15
6Tom Wilkinson20033:24:12
7Nicki Scott20043:25:37
8Amanda Cracknell20033:38:17
9Mik Hennessy20043:39:14
10David PantlingAug 17, 20003:41:22
11Andrew William WrightJul 7, 20013:48:16
12David FeakesJul 7, 20013:49:54
13Mark WestawayAug 19, 20024:07:45
14Robert Bembrose HodgsonJun 10, 20074:14
15Hannah Lietzau20044:21:32
16Albert Coward19784:25documented
17Kate TysonAug 24, 20024:33:50
18Caroline LewisAug 6, 20104:34:13
19Vicki ThompsonAug 23, 20094:39
20Lesley Feakes20034:46:32
21Kate Tyson20044:49:51
22Dan Earthquake20044:50:33
23Vicki ThompsonJul 25, 20004:51:48
24Beverley Thomas20044:53
25Isabella WeatherallSep 9, 20165:25
—Katie Tyson2003—
—Tamra Blanchard2003—

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: British Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.