Cross-border swim

The 2017 Pan-American Colibrí Swim between Imperial Beach, California, USA and Playas de Tijuana Mexico is a 10 km cross border swim and example of Speedo diplomacy by a group of ocean swimmers from five nations with the purpose to raise awareness and funds for the Colibri Center for Human Rights in the Pacific Ocean

noun - A cross border swim is an international swim that starts in one country and finishes in another country, crossing a border somewhere along the course.

Cross-border Swims

• Georgeville or Bust, a 15-mile (24.1 km) marathon swimming competition between Newport, Vermont, U.S.A. and Georgeville, Quebec, Canada.
• Embrace The Challenge, a 20 km marathon swim for solo swimmers and relays across Lake Erie between Eastern Lake Erie from Sturgeon Point, New York (USA) to Crystal Beach, Ontario (Canada).
• Bente Weber Memorial Swim, a 2.5-mile interisland Caribbean Sea (Nevis to St. Kitts Cross-Channel Swim) from Nevis to St. Kitts
• Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim is a swim between Asia and Europe.
• Billy Butlin Cross Channel International Swim was a channel swim between England and France in the 1950s.
• Clean Cross - Hong Kong to Macau Swim was an international swim in 2014
• In Search of Memphre, an international amateur marathon swim between Newport, Vermont, U.S.A. and Magog, Quebec, Canada
• Beagle Channel, a 3.7 km crossing between the borders of Argentina and Chile
• Pan-American Colibrí Swim, a 7.9 km 3 hour 3 minute swim between Imperial Beach, California, USA and Playas de Tijuana Mexico held on 5 May 2017
• Xiamen-Kinmen Swimming Competition, an 8 km cross-channel swim across the Taiwan Strait between China and Taiwan
• LGSA Classic Swim, a 12 km swim across Lac Léman from Lausanne to Évian-les-Bains, crossing the Swiss border into France.
• Lake Erie Open Water Swimming Association 24.3-mile swim between Long Point, Ontario, Canada to Freeport Beach, North East Twp, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Strait of Bonifacio, a 15 km swim between the island of Corsica, France and the island of Sardinia, Italy that divides the Tyrrhenian Sea from the western Mediterranean Sea (Gran Fondo Bocche di Bonifacio).
• Asociación de Cruce a Nado del Río de la Plata swims crosses the estuary formed by the Uruguay River and the Paraná River between Argentina and Uruguay.
• Melaka Straits Swim, a 31 km crossing of the Straits of Melaka from Rupat Island, Indonesia to Port Dickson, Malaysia.
• Cruce del Plata, a 40 km crossing between Colonia, Uruguay and La Plata, Argentina in South America.

Synonyms

cross border swim, international swim, transoceanic swim, transatlantic swim, transpacific swim, border crossing swim, cross-continental swim

Origin

First coined by Steven Munatones in 2008.

External links

• A 40 km Cross-border Swim, Cruce del Plata
• Lewis Pugh Fights A Turbulent Red Sea, But His Fight For the World’s Oceans Continues
• Dr. Mariam Saleh Binladen Joins Lewis Pugh on Day 1 of the Red Sea Swim
• Lewis Pugh Starts The Red Sea Swim
• Lewis Pugh Sees Red Amid Calling For Action
• Gustav Kvikant Completes 38-day Stage Swim Across The Baltic Sea
• The Baltic Swim
• Young Margaret Rivard Is First To Complete In Search of Memphre This Summer
• Swimming The Strait of Bonifacio
• Corsica-Sardinia, a Cross-Border Island-to-Island Swim between France and Italy
• Friendship Swim Across La Perouse Strait From Japan To Russia
• Bucket Lists Of Ice Swimming
• Bárbara Pioneers New Course Across The Beagle Channel
• Legacy Of Lac Memphrémagog
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Open Water Swimming
• Javier Mérida Prieto To Cross The Beagle Channel
• Nado Panamericano Colibrí By Mariel Hawley
• Nado Panamericano Colibrí…5 de mayo de 2017
• Pan-American Colibri Crossing
• Madswimmer, Always Swimming For A Cause
• Pan-American Colibrí Swim Crosses Borders
• Dan Simonelli On The Pan-American Colibrí Swim
• Behind The Scenes Of An Open Water Event
• King From Imperial Beach To Playas De Tijuana
• Swimming Together In Pan-American Colibrí Swim
• Pan-American Colibrí Swim Completed
• Mad Mad + Wild + Speed = Charitable Fun
• Monahan Maintains Momentum With A Marathon To Magog
• Embrace The Challenge With Everyday Heroes
• Missing Man In Marathon Found In Lake Erie
• Martyn Webster Wins LGSA Classic Swim
• Swimming In Record Time For A Cure
• Ned Denison Honored In Vermont
• The White Knight Honored In Vermont
• The Search Continues And Grows
• Martyn Webster Wins LGSA Classic Swim
• Jaimie Monahan Honored By The Hall Of Fame
• Anna-Carin Nordin Honored By The Hall Of Fame
• All They Do Is Yack, Yack, Yack
• Cross-border Cruising For Cryptozoological Creatures
• Sharessa Gutierrez, Vera Rivard Survive Memphre
• Conrad Kubaney, Greg Roberts Cross Lake Erie
• So Great, Lakes And Liz
• American swimmer arrives in Port Franks after nearly 21 hours in Lake Huron waters
• Carina Bruwer Tuned Up For The Triple Country Swim
• Four Women In Search Of Memphre Find Success
• Carina Bruwer Tuned Up For The Triple Country Swim
• Carina Bruwer Goes Three For Three
• The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
• Able-Bodied In The Open Water
• Speedo Diplomacy From Italy To Tunisia
• Nejib Belhedi To Cross Borders Escorted By A Pirate Ship
• Meis – Kaş, Greece-to-Turkey Cross-Border Swim
• Kim Rutherford Achieves a Dream Across Strait of Juan de Fuca