El Cruce

The Largest Marathon Swim in the World!

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2021
Cancun
Mexico
1.5k, 3.8k, 10k
Ocean Swim

Aboutthe swim

This could be the most amazing swim you ever do! This swim is the world famous “El Cruce” or “The Crossing” which swims over an underwater museum in Cancun.

To start the 10k race you wade into the warm, crystal clear waters of the Mexican Caribbean on the shore of Cancun and swim towards Isla Mujeres (Isle of Women). And just when you are finishing the race and are thoroughly exhausted, you will get a great pick-me-up! You will swim right over the unbelievable underwater museum! The museum was commissioned as an exceptionally creative and artistic way to build an artificial reef. You will swim right over 500+ stunning and detailed statues that were carefully placed at the bottom of the ocean for you to see and for coral to grow on, creating a whole new ecosystem. Given the clarity of the water and the shallow depth these works of art can actually be seen as you are swimming in the race.

If the that distance is still a bit much for you, there is the challenging 3.8k “Cancun Iron Swim” and “The Cancun Mile”, both of which take place on the Saturday before the 10k… so you can do 2 races, one each day!

The Cancun Mile and Cancun Iron Swim are each capped at 450 swimmers and the 10k, El Cruce is capped at 1,000 swimmers! Which makes it one of the largest 10k in the world! And take note: they all sell out!

All the distances have numerous fast, world class swimmers, but the majority are swimmers that are there just to experience this amazing swim and the whole event in one of the vacation capitals of the world. For this first year at least, you don’t have to qualify, everyone is welcome!

El Cruce is truly one of the most unique and spectacular races in the world… and we are happy to have it in the GSS and you will be happy you swam this classic!

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