Most northerly ice swim (female)
- Who
- Arleen Gonzalez Perez, Natascha Venter
- What
- 78.67°N degree(s) decimal minutes
- Where
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Ekmanfjorden )
- When
- 22 July 2026
The most northerly ice swim by a female swimmer was at a latitude of 78.67°N, by Arleen Gonzalez Perez (Mexico) and Natascha Venter (South Africa) in the Ekmanfjorden in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, on 22 July 2026, as ratified by the International Ice Swimming Association.
The water temperature was 4.26°C (39.6°F). As per IISA rules, all ice swims must take place in water below a threshold of 5°C (41°F) and the swimmers only permitted to wear a swimming costume, cap and goggles.
Gonzalez Perez's swim also represents the longest distance ice swim within polar regions by a female swimmer, covering 3.1 km (1.93 mi). Venter, meanwhile, went a distance of 1.3 km (0.8 mi).
This bettered the previous record of 78.3°N achieved by Kinga Korin (Poland) in the Nordfjorden in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, on 27 June 2017. Korin swam a distance of 1.09 km (0.67 mi) in a time of 20 minutes 5 seconds.