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World Marathon Swimming Records (in AFRICA)

The list below is only a short list of the marathon swimming records over 10 kilometers – all
done without wetsuits and according to traditional English Channel swimming rules. With over
70% of the Earth covered in water, the number of records and locations to swim are
numerous and potentially endless.

If you know of additional records or new records that have been set in Africa, please email the
name of the world record holder, their country, date (month, day and year), location, distance
and official time to Open Water Source.

Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)

First Female Crossing: Lynne Cox (USA), 1977 3:03 (8 miles)
First Male Crossing: Lewis Pugh (Great Britain), April 2004, 3:15 (12K)

Cape Agulhas (10K in South Africa)

First Crossing: Lewis Pugh (Great Britain), 7 May 1994, 4:15 (10K)
Fastest Crossing: Erica Moffet (USA), 23 April 2005, 2:16
Fastest Male crossing: Lewis Gordon Pugh (Great Britain), 7 May 1994, 4:15

Lake Malawi (25K, Malawi)

First Crossing: Lewis Pugh (Great Britain) and Otto Thaning (South Africa), January 1992,
9:15 (25K)

Robben Island (7.5K to Cape Town, South Africa)

Fastest Double Crossing from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand (15K): Phillip Chappel
(Australia), 6 December 2009, 3:55:56
Fastest Triple Crossing from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand (22.5K): Steven Klugman
(South Africa), 28 February 2003, 6:12
Fastest Crossing from Robben Island to Three Anchor Bay (10.2K): Christof Wandratsch
(Germany), 5 February 2005, 2:11:49
Fastest Female Crossing from Robben Island to Three Anchor Bay (10.2K): Liz Webb (South
Africa), 9 December 2009, 2:41:48
Fastest Double Crossing from Three Anchor Bay to Robben Island (20.4K): Steven Klugman
(South Africa): 3 March 2002, 5:52
Fastest Female Double Crossing from Three Anchor Bay to Robben Island (20.4K): Annemie
Landmeters (Belgium), 16 December 1987, 6:28
Fastest Swim from Three Anchor Bay to Robben Island to Bloubergstrand: Peter Bales
(South Africa): 15 April 1981, 5:43
Youngest Swimmer from Three Anchor Bay to Robben Island to Bloubergstrand: 10-year-old
Aditya Raut (India), 21 June 2004, 6:42
Fastest Circumnavigation around Robben Island (9.9K): Fastest swim & fastest female:
Carina Bruwer (South Africa), 27 April 2005, 3:07
Fastest Male Circumnavigation around Robben Island (9.9K): Lewis Pugh (Great Britain), 10

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July 2004, 3:42

First Two-way Crossing from 3 Anchor Bay, around Robben Island and back to 3 Anchor Bay
(20.5K): Theodore Yach (South Africa), November 2009, 10:39
King of Robben Island (most crossings from Robben Island to Cape Town): Theodore Yach
(South Africa), 59

False Bay (34K in South Africa)

Fastest Crossing from Rooi Els to Miller's Point: Barend Nortje (South Africa), 5 March 2007,
9:33
Fastest Female Crossing from Rooi Els to Simonstown: Annemie Landmeters (Belgium),
1989, 9:56
First Crossing from Rooi Els to Miller’s Point: Steven Klugman (South Africa), 15 February
2004, 14:15

Simonstown to Muizenberg (11K in South Africa)

Fastest Crossing: Annemie Landmeters (Belgium), 10 March 1990, 2:18
Fastest Male Crossing: Steven Klugman (South Africa), 24 January 2004, 2:22
Fastest Double Crossing: Peter Bales (South Africa), 21 March 1972
Fastest Double Crossing: Annemie Landmeters (Belgium), 18 December 1988, 5:17

Nelson Mandela Bay (18K – 22K in South Africa)

Fastest Crossing from Hobie Beach to Bluewater Bay (18K): Kyle Main (South Africa), 2003,
4:00:16
Fastest Crossing from Port of Coega to Hobie Beach (22K): Philip Kuhn (South Africa), 2005,
4:40:30

Danger Point (11K in South Africa)

First Circumnavigation: Carina Bruwer (South Africa), 11 August 2004, 3:16

Cape Peninsula (South Africa)

First Circumnavigation from V&A Waterfront to Muizenberg (100K staged swim): Lewis Pugh
(Great Britain), 28 April - 15 May 2004, 37:20 cumulative time

Hout Bay (10K from Kommetjie to Hout Bay in South Africa)

Fastest Crossing: Derek Yach (South Africa), 24 February 1990, 2:53
Fastest Female Crossing: Penny Gill (South Africa), 7 June 1992, 4:34

Camps Bay to Robben Island (South Africa)

First Crossing: Theodore Yach (South Africa), 7 May 1994, 5:30

Dialog Across The Seas (20K from Kerkennah to Sfax, Tunisia)

First Crossing: Lt. Colonel Nejib Belhedi (Tunisia), 25 June 1991, 7:24
Fastest Crossing: Ismail Dergaa (Tunisia), 2009, 4:26:30
Fastest Female Crossing: Kouther Khelfaoui (Tunisia), 2009, 4:59:59

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Dialog Across The Seas (22K in El Bibane Lake, Tunisia)

First Crossing: Lt. Colonel Nejib Belhedi (Tunisia), 1991
Fastest Crossing: Ezouizer Wassim (Syria), 2010, 5:06:56
Fastest Female Crossing: Nicola Fraser (Great Britain), 2010, 5:27:48

Hammam lif to Sidi Bou (16K in Tunisia)

First Crossing: Lt. Colonel Nejib Belhedi (Tunisia), 30 November 1991, 5:21

La Galite Channel (20K in Tunisia)

First Crossing: Lt. Colonel Nejib Belhedi (Tunisia), 17 July 1999, 7:15

Cap Bon to la Marsa (45K in Tunisia)

First Crossing: Lt. Colonel Nejib Belhedi (Tunisia), 30 May 1992, 11:17

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