The 1.8 km International Challenge of Swimming Across the Yangtze River is an open water swimming competition across the Yangtze River in Wuhan, China that has been held since 1934 and is organized by the Wuhan Swim Association. Since 1956, there have been 37 crossings of the Yangtze River. In 2002, open water swimmers from the U.S.A, Germany, Russia, and Malaysia participated in the crossing of the Yangtze River.