Ayaka Matsushita
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Ayaka Matsushita after crossing the 23 km Cook Strait in New Zealand on 27 January 2026
Ayaka Matsushita crossing the 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel on 24 July 2022
On 5 September 2020, Ocean Navi swimmers Tomonari Ogino, Chika Nishibori, Miho Yonezawa, Syuji Nao, Kumiko Koizumi, Minori Tanaka, Toshihiko Manabe, Yasuko Takeda, Satoko Murata, and Ayaka Matsusihita with observer Masayuki Moriya and support crew Honma Motoko swim from Enoshima to Jogashima in 7 hours 11 minutes
Ayaka Matsushita （松下彩花), born 24 April 1993 in Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese pool and open water swimmer with Ocean Navi. Her nickname if Umionna.
Open Water Swimming Highlights
- On 27 January 2026, she completed a 23 km crossing of the Cook Strait in 5 hours 26 minutes 52.41 seconds.
- On 5 September 2020, she swam with Tomonari Ogino, Chika Nishibori, Miho Yonezawa, Syuji Nao, Kumiko Koizumi, Minori Tanaka, Toshihiko Manabe, Yasuko Takeda, Satoko Murata with observer Masayuki Moriya and support crew Honma Motoko) on a 21 km Ocean Navi relay from Enoshima to Jogashima in eastern Japan in 7 hours 11 minutes 18 seconds.
- On 24 July 2022, she crossed the 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel from Aomori Prefecture to Hokkaido in northern Japan 10 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds in 24°C water.
- On 22 February 2025, she completed the 19.7 km Rottnest Channel Swim in Western Australia in 4 hours 45 minutes 39 seconds, the 7th woman and 20th overall.
- Between 9-16 May 2026, she will attempt to cross the 45 km Molokai Channel in Hawaii.
- Between 27-30 January 2026, she will attempt to cross the 23 km Cook Strait in New Zealand.
- On 2 September 2026, she will attempt to cross the 32.3 km Catalina Channel from Santa Catalina Island to the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.
