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First English Channel Crossing
Matthew Webb breaststroked from Dover to Calais in August 1875, unassisted by modern nutrition science, drinking brandy and cod li...
First Channel Crossing by a Woman
Ederle crossed from Cap Gris Nez to Kingsdown in 1926 wearing a two piece suit and lanolin grease, using motorcycle goggles sealed...
First Catalina Channel Crossing
The 1927 Wrigley Ocean Marathon offered prize money to swim about 32 km from Catalina Island to the California mainland. Canadian ...
Hellespont Crossing
The Hellespont, about 1.2 km wide at its narrowest, links the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara with strong surface current. The legen...
First Modern Olympic Swimming Events
The 1896 Games held swimming in the sea at the Bay of Zea, with water around 13 degrees and swimmers brought out by boat and told ...
First Sub-60-Second 100 m Freestyle
Weissmuller broke the minute barrier in 1922 using the American crawl with a six beat kick, at a time when debates over stroke sty...
First North Channel Crossing
The North Channel between Ireland and Scotland runs about 35 km with water a few degrees colder than the English Channel and bloom...
First Cook Strait Crossing
New Zealand lifeguard Barrie Devenport swam from Cape Terawhiti on the North Island to the South Island on 20 November 1962 in 11 ...
Marilyn Bell Lake Ontario Swim
Marilyn Bell of Toronto entered Lake Ontario in September 1954 after two other swimmers withdrew, and reached the Canadian shore a...
Traversee Internationale du Lac St-Jean
The Traversee internationale du Lac St-Jean began in 1955 as a roughly 30 km professional race across a cold glacial lake in Quebe...
Alcatraz Swim
Swimmers have crossed from Alcatraz to the mainland since long before the prison closed in 1963, with organized crossings regular ...
Manhattan Island Marathon Swim
The Manhattan Island Marathon Swim circles the island in about 45.9 km, taking in the Hudson, Harlem and East rivers with their ch...
First World Swimming Championships
World governing body FINA staged the first world aquatic championships in Belgrade in 1973, giving swimmers a global title between...
First Sub-15-Minute 1500 m Freestyle
Salnikov cracked 15 minutes in the Moscow final, a barrier compared in its day to the four minute mile. His distance training volu...
Fastest English Channel Crossing
Australian Trent Grimsey crossed from England to France in 6 hours 55 minutes in September 2012, becoming the fastest swim of the ...
Most English Channel Crossings
Australian Chloe McCardel completed her 44th English Channel crossing in 2023, passing the previous record of 34 held by Kevin Mur...
Cuba to Florida Swim
Diana Nyad reached Key West in September 2013 after about 53 hours in the water from Havana, swimming without a shark cage or wets...
First Sub-47-Second 100 m Freestyle
Popovici clocked 46.86 in Rome in August 2022, becoming the first man under 47 seconds for the 100 m freestyle. The record stood u...
Oceans Seven
The Oceans Seven comprises the North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the...
The Ice Mile
An official ice mile requires a 1.6 km swim in water at 5 degrees or below wearing only a standard costume, cap and goggles, witne...
Lynne Cox Bering Strait Swim
In August 1987 Lynne Cox swam about 4 km from Little Diomede Island in the United States to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union, in wa...
Beijing 2008 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay
The French team were favorites after Alain Bernard predicted they would smash the Americans. On the anchor leg Jason Lezak trailed...