Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association (TCSA) 津軽海峡遠泳協会: Matthias Kaßner Cruises Across The Tsugaru Channel

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Matthias Kaßner Cruises Across The Tsugaru Channel

Courtesy of Channel Swim Japan, Tsugaru Channel, Japan.

Matthias Kaßner completed a crossing of the Tsugaru Channel from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan in 9 hours 45 minutes yesterday.

It was his 5th Oceans Seven channel in a prolific marathon and ice swimming career.

He has the Cook Strait in New Zealand and the Molokai Channel in Hawaii left on his agenda after completing the English Channel, North Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Catalina Channel and Tsugaru Channel as well as a number of other marathon swims from Europe (including the Beltquerung and Bodenseequerung) to America (Manhattan Island Marathon Swim).

One of his supporters, Oliver Halder, is celebrating his successful crossing with some unique T-shirts with a Japanese theme. The shirts are sold on the Extremschwimmer online shop at www.shop.extremschwimmer.de.

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Thank you very much for your interest in the Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association.
Steven Munatones, Founder

Successful Channel Swimmers

1. David Yudovin (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 13 hours 10 minutes (7 July 1990)

2. Steven Munatones (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 6 hours 11 minutes (July 1990)
3. Steven Munatones(USA) solo single crossing (Hokkaido-to-Honshu) in 6 hours 39 minutes (July 1990)
4. Miyuki Fujita (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 36 minutes (2005)
5. Masayuki Moriya (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 55 minutes (2011) in wetsuit
6. Penny Palfrey (Australia) solo single crossing (Hokkaido-to-Honshu) in 14 hours 30 minutes (2011)
7. Darren Miller (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 15 hours 55 minutes (2012)
8. Stephen Redmond (Ireland) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 45 minutes (2012)
9. Michelle Macy (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 55 minutes (2012)
10. Forrest Nelson (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 26 minutes (2012)
11. Craig Lenning (USA) solo single crossing (Hokkaido-to-Honshu) in 10 hours 44 minutes (2012)
12. Pat Gallant-Charette (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 19 hours 36 minutes (2012)
13. Anna-Carin Nordin (Sweden) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 19 hours 11 minutes (2012)
14. Kenichi Setsumasa (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 7 hours 30 minutes (2012)
15. Adam Walker (Great Britain) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 15 hours 31 minutes (2013)
16. Kimberley Chambers (New Zealand) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 38 minutes (2014)
17. Attila Mányoki (Hungary) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 7 hours 29 minutes (2014)
18. Guy Moar (Australia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 32 minutes (2015)
19. Daniel Curtis (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 13 hours 39 minutes (2015)
20. Antonio Argüelles (Mexico) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 38 minutes (2015)
21. Rohans More (India) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 37 minutes (2015)
22. Abhejali Bernardova (Czech Republic) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 7 minutes (2016)
23. Stephen Junk (Australia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 2 minutes (2016)
24. Honoka Hasegawa (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 31 minutes (2016)
25. Toshio Tominaga (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 58 minutes (2016)
26. Elizabeth Fry (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 15 hours 48 minutes (2016)
27. Ion Lazarenco Tiron (Moldova) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 20 minutes (2017)
28. Jorge Crivilles Villanueva (Spain) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 28 minutes (2017)
29. Adrian Sarchet (Guernsey) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 14 hours 2 minutes 9 seconds (2017)
30. Prabhat Raju Koli (India) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 52 minutes (2017)
31. Cameron Bellamy (South Africa) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 7 minutes 28 seconds (2018)
32. Ryan Utsumi (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 46 minutes (2018)
33. Nora Toledano Cadena (Mexico) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido in a tandem swim with Mariel Hawley Dávila) in 6 hours 20 minutes 52 seconds (2018)
34. Mariel Hawley Dávila (Mexico) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido in a tandem swim with Nora Toledano Cadena) in 6 hours 20 minutes 52 seconds (2018)
35. André Wiersig (Germany) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 55 minutes (2018)
36. Andrew Hunt (Australia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 52 minutes (2018)
37. Tomonari Ogino (Japan) solo wetsuit crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 5 minutes 50 seconds (2018)
38. Thomas Pembroke (Australia) solo solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 15 hours 1 minutes 30 seconds (2018)
39. Lynton Mortensen (Australia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 34 minutes 15 seconds (2018)
40. Masaki Sugita (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 13 hours 18 minutes 43 seconds (2018)
41. Simon Olliver (New Zealand) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 58 minutes 0 seconds (2018)
42. Bogusław Ogrodnik (Poland) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 30 minutes (2018)
43. Jonathan Ratcliffe (UK) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 0 minutes (2019)
44. Claire Faranda (France) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 51 minutes 24 seconds (2019)
45. Kieron Palframan (South Africa) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 41 minutes 5 seconds (2019)
46. Nathalie Pohl (Germany) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 9 minutes 40 seconds (2019)
47. Marcia Cleveland (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 11 minutes 2 seconds (2019)
48. Dina Levacic (Croatia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 7 hours 13 minutes 15 seconds (2019)
49. Matthias Kaßner (Germany) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 45 minutes (2019)
50. Emre Erdogan (Turkey) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 7 hours 36 minutes (2019)
51. Luca Pozzi (Italy) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 20 minutes 58 seconds (2019)
52. Herman van der Westhuizen (South Africa) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 22 minutes 37 seconds (2019)

Significant & Record Swims

First Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: David Yudovin (USA) on 7 July 1990 in 13 hours 10 minutes

First Hokkaido-Honshu Crossing: Steven Munatones (USA) on 30 July 1990 in 6 hours 39 minutes

First Female Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Miyuki Fujita (Japan) in 2005 in 11 hours 36 minutes

Fastest Male Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Steven Munatones (USA) 29 July 1990 in 6 hours 11 minutes

Fastest Female Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Nora Toledano Cadena (Mexico) and Mariel Hawley Davila (Mexico) in 2018 in 6 hours 20 minutes 52 seconds (tandem swim)

Fastest Youth (under 21 years) Honshu-Hokkaido: Honoka Hasegawa (Japan) in 2016 in 8 hours 31 minutes

Fastest Overall Tsugaru Channel Crossing: Steven Munatones (USA) on 30 July 1990 in 6 hours 39 minutes

Youngest Female Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Honoka Hasegawa (Japan) in 2016 at 18 years old 4 months 20 days

Youngest Male Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Prabhat Raju Koli (India) in 2017 at the age of 18 years 1 month 15 days

Youngest Overall Tsugaru Channel Crossing: Prabhat Raju Koli (India) in 2017 at the age of 18 years 1 month 15 days

Oldest Female Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Pat Gallant-Charette (USA) in 2012 at the age of 61 years old

Oldest Male Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Toshio Tominaga (Japan) in 2016 in 9 hours 58 minutes at the age of 73

Oldest Overall Tsugaru Channel Crossing: Toshio Tominaga (Japan) in 2016 in 9 hours 58 minutes at the age of 73

Longest Honshu-Hokkaido Single Crossing: Pat Gallant-Charette (USA) in 2012 in 19 hours 36 minutes

Longest Male Honshu-Hokkaido Single Crossing: Darren Miller (USA) in 2012 in 15 hours 55 minutes

Longest Overall Tsugaru Channel Crossing: Pat Gallant-Charette (USA) in 2012 in 19 hours 36 minutes

Fastest Double Crossing (Honshu-Hokkaido-Honshu): Steven Munatones (USA) in 1990 in 12 hours 50 minutes

First Triple Crossing (Honshu-Hokkaido-Honshu-Hokkaido): Miyuki Fujita (Japan) in 2006 in 37 hours 24 minutes