Christof Wandratsch

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Personal information
Surname: Christof Wandratsch
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Swimming style (s) : crawl
Birthday: December 20, 1966
Place of birth: Nuremberg
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Christof Wandratsch (born December 20, 1966 in Nuremberg ) is a German swimming athlete and the fastest German to cross the English Channel .

Career

In 1990 he won the Lake Zurich Swimming . He achieved his first international successes in extreme swimming on the 25 km course at the European Championships in Terracina in 1991 and in Vienna in 1995.

Christof Wandratsch swam through the Fehmarnbelt in 2005 in a time of 5 hours 11 minutes and held the world record for solo crossing the Fehmarnbelt until 2012. In August 2012, Bruno Baumgartner from Switzerland beat his time by another 18 minutes with 4 hours 53 minutes.

In August 2005 he set a new world record for crossing the English Channel with a time of 7 hours, 3 minutes and 52 seconds . In 2003 he came very close to Chad Hundeby's previous world record with a time of 7 hours 20 minutes and only missed it by 3 minutes. The attempt was captured by Jörg Adolph in the documentary canal swimmers.

The record only lasted until 2007, when the Bulgarian swimmer Petar Stojtschew undercut the swimming time on this route by 6 minutes.

The Strait of Gibraltar swam Christof Wandratsch 2007 in a world record time of 2 hours 51 minutes. In July 2013, he was the first swimmer to cross Lake Constance lengthways without a break and without a wetsuit . He needed 20 hours and 41 minutes for the 66 kilometers and 670 meters long route from Bodman-Ludwigshafen to Bregenz .

Wandratsch is also active as a triathlete. In 2006, he set a new world record over the swimming distance at Ironman Austria : 3.8 kilometers in 41:26 minutes. He was a member of the Abu Dhabi Triathlon Team - until it was dissolved in January 2013.

Christof Wandratsch works as a teacher and lives in Haiming in Upper Bavaria.

Sporting successes

swim

Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Jan. 10, 2016 2 Ice Swimming German Open GermanyGermany Burghausen 00: 12: 54.19 Ice swimming over 1,000 m; The world record was improved to 00: 12: 28.10 in the same run by Petar Stojchev
20 Mar 2015 1 Ice Swimming World Championship 2015 RussiaRussia Murmansk 00: 13: 00.52 World champion and world record over 1,000 m ice swimming at the first edition of the ice swimming world championship
  2015 1 Ice Swimming German Open GermanyGermany Burghausen 00: 14: 06.84 Ice swimming over 1,000 m
 Aug 1997 2 European Swimming Championships 1997 SpainSpain Seville 05:08:36 Open water swimming 25 km
 Aug 1995 1 European Swimming Championships 1995 AustriaAustria Vienna 05: 11: 36.3 Open water swimming 25 km
 Aug 1995 2 European Swimming Championships 1995 AustriaAustria Vienna 00: 56: 06.8 Open water swimming 5 km
Sep 15 1991 1 European Swimming Championships 1991 ItalyItaly Terracina Open water swimming 25 km; Winner alongside the Swiss Eliane Fieschi in the women
 Aug 1990 1 Lake Zurich swimming SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 06:15:20 Open water swimming 26.4 km; from Rapperswil to Zurich

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New record in the Fehmarnbelt - Bruno Baumgartner dethrones his idol Christof Wandratsch Swim, August 29, 2012
  2. ^ Dover Life Channel Swimming - Successful Crossings
  3. ↑ Extreme swimmer crosses Lake Constance Focus online, July 23, 2013, accessed on July 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ Abu Dhabi Triathlon Team Ends
  5. ↑ World champion and world record: Wandratsch celebrates in Russia (March 21, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Wandratsch, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg