Fastest time to swim around Manhattan Island - 5 hours, 32 minutes and 14 seconds by Andreas Waschburger

By completing this swim, Waschburger also achieved the fastest aggregate time to complete the Triple Crown of open-water swimming, which also comprises the English Channel (6 hr 45 min 25 sec on 8 September 2023) and the Catalina Channel off California, USA (7 hr 57 min 40 sec on 1 November 2025), for a total time of 20 hr 15 min 19 sec.