Belt crossing

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The Belt Crossing is an international sporting event and is assigned to swimming and here to the discipline of long-distance or marathon swimming . It is widely recognized because, like the route over the English Channel, it is one of the toughest long-distance swimmers in the world.

The stretch of the Belt Crossing runs in the Fehmarnbelt between the city of Rødby / Denmark and the island of Fehmarn / Germany through the middle of the Baltic Sea . The minimum distance is 20 kilometers. It is lengthened by the influence of water currents and waves, so that athletes usually cover actual swimming distances of 25 to 30 km at water temperatures between around 15 and 21 ° C.

Disciplines

The Belt Crossing is divided into the Open Belt Crossing, in which every very experienced swimmer can participate and choose their own swimming date, and the International Marathon Swimming Belt Crossing, which is a permanent swimming event to which swimmers are only invited by the organizer.

Open Belt Crossing:

  • Relay belt crossing with 2, 3, 4 or 5 swimmers every hour
  • Solo belt crossing
  • Double solo belt crossing (Fehmarn-Rødby-Fehmarn)

International marathon swimming Belt crossing:

  • Belt crossing sprint
  • Relay belt crossing with two swimmers
  • Solo belt crossing

regulate

The swimmers may only a swimsuit , swimming cap and swimming goggles wear. Fats are allowed as body protection. Each swimmer is accompanied by a ship, which gives the swimmer the direction, as the swimmer can only recognize the flat land as a target near the shore and thus a large part of the route would be alone in the water without orientation.

history

The Belt crossing has been taking place since 1998 under the organizer Jens Glaeßer from JOGPROMOTION. The first and only successful Belt crossing before took place by Karl-Heinz Rauert from Fehmarn on July 25, 1939 under the same conditions. It was not until 1999, exactly 60 years after Rauert, that the Argentine María Inés Mato was able to successfully repeat the belt crossing and at the same time break the belt record. On July 27, 2011, the German Bruno Dobelmann from Stuttgart managed to cross the Fehmarnbelt twice for the first time. It started on July 26th, 2011 at 6:45 p.m. on Niobe-Strand / Puttgarden on Fehmarn. He reached Rødby, stayed on land for four minutes and then swam back again. On July 27, 2011, he returned to Puttgarden at 13:59.

So far (as of July 28, 2011) there is a successful swimmer,

  1. Bruno Dobelmann (GER / 2011 / 19h15min51s incl. 4 min stopover in Rødby / DK),

who was able to complete the double solo belt crossing of the Fehmarnbelt between Denmark and Germany.

So far (as of November 4, 2019) there are nine successful swimmers

  1. Lotta Steinmann (GER / 2019 / 4h12min),
  2. Selina Moreno Pasagali (ESP / 2014 / 6h22min),
  3. Heike Braun (GER / 2006 / 6h25min),
  4. Anke Tinnefeld (GER / 2015 / 7h46min),
  5. Anke Höhne (GER / 2016 / 08h06min),
  6. Kirsten Seidel (GER / 2003 / 9h03min),
  7. Jacqueline Kempfer (GER / 2016 / 09h09min),
  8. Claudia Markwardt (GER / 2005 / 10h22min),
  9. María Inés Mato (ARG / 1999 / 11h04min),

and twenty-six successful swimmers,

  1. Bruno Baumgartner (SUI / 2012 / 4h53min),
  2. Christof Wandratsch (GER / 2005 / 5h11min),
  3. Thorsten Ullrich-Stegemann (GER / 2017 / 5h31min),
  4. Romano Mombelli (SUI / 2019 / 5h24min),
  5. Jörg Schleibaum (GER / 2019 / 5h48min),
  6. Sale Savel (AUT / 2018 / 5h51min),
  7. Jacques Tuset (FRA / 2013 / 5h57min),
  8. Sergio Salomone (ARG / 2010 / 6h05min),
  9. Attila Manyoki (HUN / 2011 / 6h08min),
  10. Hans-Georg Fiedeldeij (NL / 2012 / 6h12min),
  11. Yasutaka Kurokawa (JAP / 2010 / 6h24min),
  12. Elmar Neitemeier (GER / 2018 / 6h51min),
  13. Matthias Kaßner (GER / 2014 / 7h27min),
  14. Claudio Plitt (ARG / 2000 / 7h28min),
  15. Theodosis Charalambos (GRE / 2014 / 7h36min),
  16. Thomas Pesch (GER / 2014 / 7h39min),
  17. David Körfer (GER / 2014 / 7h45min),
  18. Jörg Büttner (GER / 2016 / 8h42min),
  19. Amol Adhav (IND / / 2013 / 8h57min),
  20. Jürgen Fussi (AUT / 2011 / 9h35min),
  21. Francois Kofoed Moneaux (BEL / 2017 / 09h56min),
  22. Torsten Stöckmann (GER / 2015 / 9h57min),
  23. Daniel Curtis (USA / 2014 / 11h26min),
  24. Sale Savuljeskovic (AUT / 2012 / 11h28min),
  25. Dennis Tommy Seiler-Holm (DEN / 2017 / 11h44min),
  26. Karl-Heinz Rauert (GER / 1939 / 11h58min),

who were able to complete a solo belt crossing of the Fehmarnbelt between Denmark and Germany.

Documented but not recognized Belt crossings

and two successful swimmers (proven but not recognized),

  1. Giles Meyer (GB / 2009 / 4h51min),
  2. Christian Hartmann-Herrmann (GER / 2014 / 6h19min),

who were able to complete a solo belt crossing of the Fehmarnbelt between Denmark and Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.fehmarn24.de/fehmarn/giles-meyer-schwamm-rekordzeit-durch-belt-688285.html
  2. ↑ Amberger fulfills his dream. In: Amberger Zeitung , August 7, 2014, accessed on March 9, 2016
  3. ↑ From Denmark to Fehmarn. In: Onetz.de , August 8, 2014, accessed March 9, 2016