Freddy Nock
Alfred "Freddy" Nock ( jun. ) (Born December 10, 1964 in Gränichen , Aargau ) is a Swiss high wire artist , stuntman and extreme athlete.
Life
Freddy Nock comes from the Nock circus family . He had his first experience on the rope at the age of four. At the age of eleven he started high-wire running. His grandparents were already rope runners. When his father Alfredo Nock founded a circus tent rental company in 1985, Freddy went on tour with his aunt's family and continued his artistic career. As a result, he was awarded at various international up-and-coming festivals for artists. In 1994 he won the silver medal with the White Angels troupe at the Monte Carlo International Circus Festival .
Since the late 1990s, Freddy Nock has set various world records . He secured his first entry in the Guinness Book of Records in 1998 when he ran on the suspension cable of the St. Moritz Signalbahn over a distance of 734 meters. This was followed by other world records, including running on the suspension cable of the Säntis suspension railway over a distance of 1,222.7 meters in May 2006 . He set his sixth world record on April 30, 2010 in Zurich , where he crossed Lake Zurich over a distance of 900 meters on a high wire . On August 20, 2011, he set a world record on the Zugspitze . Without any safety device or balancing pole, he ran on a 5 cm thick suspension cable of the glacier railway in 90 minutes on Germany's highest mountain. He covered a distance of 995 meters and overcame an altitude difference of 348 meters. The incline was up to 57 percent.
In December 2019, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in the first instance for attempted willful killing of his wife. It is possible to appeal against the judgment .
Awards / records
- 2012: Guinness Book of Records - double page spread
- 2011: SwissAward - Show category
- 2011: 7 records in 7 days
- 2010: Highest cable car run (500 meters) in China
- 2009: 1st World Championship in Korea
- 2009: Cable run on the Zugspitze at an altitude of 2995 meters
- 2006: World record at the RTL donation marathon with a 24-hour marathon (together with Joey Kelly )
- 2006: World record on the Säntis (rope run at 1121 meters above sea level and 60% gradient)
- 1994: Monte Carlo International Circus Festival - silver medal with the "White Angels"
Documentation
- Beat Kuert: Mountain and Spirit: Freddy Nock. TV documentary, CH / DE, 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias Müller: Nock, Nock knocking on Heavens Door. “Head of the Day”, Der Standard , August 22, 2011.
- ↑ Freddy Nock is in safety custody. Tages-Anzeiger online , December 11, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nock, Freddy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nock, Alfredo (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss high wire artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graenichen |