Lake Zurich swimming

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The Lake Zurich Swim is a swimming competition through the entire Lake Zurich . It takes place annually in August and is organized by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. The route is from Rapperswil , Strandbad Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 47 ″  E ; CH1903:  704 078  /  231662 by Zurich , deep wells, beach with a length of 26 kilometers. It is the longest long-distance swim in Switzerland and one of the world's longest swimming marathon races.

history

Officially, this route was swum by two people before the competition events: On July 21, 1929 by Fritz Daschinger (Zurich) in a time of 12:27 hours and on August 4, 1946 by Josef Schenk (Pratteln) in 10:31: 55 hours.

The first marathon swimming event in Lake Zurich was organized in 1969 by SC Zurich and SV Limmat under the patronage of Strath-Labor AG (manufacturer Biostrath) with nine participants. In 1987, the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team re-established the Lake Zurich Marathon Swimming as part of the “World Record Games of the Impossibility” (Impossibility Challenger). It has been held annually since then (with the exception of 1997).

Categories

There are the following categories (as of 2014):

• Solo swimmers (divided into age groups)
• Wetsuit (divided into age groups)
• Relays without a wetsuit (open category, 3 swimmers, always rotating for an hour)
• Relay with wetsuit (open category, 3 swimmers, always rotating for an hour)

Winners list

Winner list of all age groups without wetsuit ( best time on the route highlighted in color ) Times in hours, minutes and seconds.

Event	date	Men			Women
		country	swimmer	time	country	Female swimmer	time
	1969	Switzerland	Hans Schmid	09:18:24
1	1987	United Kingdom	Lyndon Dunsbee	06:15:02	Switzerland	Bridet Young	06:35:20
2	1988	Egypt	Mahmond Nail	06:38:40	India	Archana Patel	09:51:20
3	1989	Poland	Bogustaw Lizak	09:09:48	Switzerland	Monika Glaner	09:42:31
4th	1990	Germany	Christoph Wandratsch	06:15:20	Australia	Tammy van Wisse	06:42:19
5	1991	Czech Republic	Michal Spacek	06:39:45	Czech Republic	Ilona Musalkova	07:40:28
6th	1992	Netherlands	Erik from Dartel	06:19:14	Czech Republic	Lenka Sterbova	07:09:18
7th	1993	Egypt	Mohammed Maarouf	05:51:41	Switzerland	Karin Bolliger	11:56:10
8th	1994	Egypt	Tamer Ibrahim Ali	05:57:40	Australia	Susie Maroney	06:00:07
9	1995	Switzerland	Christian Narra	05:53:21	Switzerland	Pamela Kalas	06:12:08
10	1996	Switzerland	David Zanfino	07:24:25	Czech Republic	Lenka Lockerova	07:48:30
-	1997	-	-	-	-	-	-
11	1998	India	Sandeep Verma	06:37:20	Sweden	Eva Andersson	07:45:29
-	1999	-	-	-	-	-	-
12	2000	United Kingdom	Simon Lee	07:07:00	Argentina	Petti Noelia	07:27:37
13	2001	Switzerland	Michele Silvan	06:06:55	Switzerland	Nadia Kruger	05:59:43
14th	2002	United Kingdom	Simon Lee	07:11:52	Sweden	Eva Andersson	08:25:21
15th	2003	Ecuador	Santiago Palacios	06:50:42	South Africa	Amanada Picard	06:48:12
16	2004	Switzerland	Mario Guhl	07:30:47	Sweden	Eva Andersson	08:37:59
17th	2005	Switzerland	Toni Pavičić-Donkić	06:41:08	Germany	Sandra Albrecht	07:26:41
18th	2006	Switzerland	Juerg Schmid	07:10:23	United States	Tina Neill	08:02:02
19th	2007	Czech Republic	David Cech	06:53:50	United Kingdom	Nancy Douglas	07:07:05
20th	2008	Switzerland	Juerg Schmid	06:53:23	Germany	Margit Bohnhoff	08:05:03
21st	2009	United Kingdom	Lee Portingale	07:15:07	Germany	Christiane Vendel	07:43:29
22nd	2010	Australia	Barry Sorcha	07:17:05	United States	Julie Ann Galloway	06:35:41
23	2011	Italy	Thomas Ladurner	06:54:45	United Kingdom	Elizabeth Price	08:25:41
24	2012	Switzerland	Bruno Baumgartner	07:33:45	United Kingdom	Alexandra Hardy	07:30:56
25th	2013	Australia	Oliver Wilkinson	06:56:36	United States	Patti Bauernfeind	07:53:34
26th	2014	Italy	Marco Allegretti	06:19:41	Ireland	Rachael Lee	07:02:15
27	2015	United States	John Zemaitis	07:40:23	United Kingdom	Jo Yetman	08:21:31
28	2016	Switzerland	Til Mesmer	06:35:35	Australia	Georgina Kovacs	06:59:31
29	2017	Romania	Paul Eugen Dorin Georgescu	07:11:37	United Kingdom	Jenny Zwijnen	07:44:52
30th	2018	South Africa	Tyronn Venter	06:36:59	Germany	Sandra Hornig	07:39:04
31	2019	Bulgaria	Dimitar Videnov	06:31:09	Germany	Sandra Hornig	06:51:31
32	2020	Event canceled. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Web links

• Sri Chinmoy Races , Official Site
• Video: 2014 , TeleZüri
• Video trailer: 2013 , (Eng.)
• Video: 2012 , (Eng.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Art: Marathon Swimming. In: Fit for life; Aarau. No. 6, 2012, pp. 64-69, ISSN  1423-5137 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} srichinmoyraces.org: Lake Zurich Swimming on June 28, 2013. Accessed June 8, 2013.
3. ↑ Munatones, Steven: Human Kinetics (ENG) Open Water Swimming , 2011, p 48, 163, ISBN 0-7360-9284-6 , Accessed on December 12, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Hadbawnik, Iris: Verlag die Werkstatt In: Up to the limit and beyond, Faszination Extreme Sport , 2011, p. 208 ISBN 978-3-89533-765-9
5. ↑ ^{a b} Markus Stahlberger: Rappi-Zurich. In: Fit for life; Aarau. No. 6, 2007, pp. 52-53, ISSN  1423-5137 .
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ruth Eigenmann: Rappi-Züri. In: Fit for life; Aarau. No. 9, 2002, pp. 74-75, ISSN  1423-5137 .
7. ↑ Munatones, Steven: spo medis (DE) In: Open Water Swimming , 2012, pp. 58, 207 ISBN 978-3-936376-68-5
8. ↑ ^{a b} Horst Hüttl: The Sri Chinmoy Movement. In: Wiener Verlag. 1998, p. 257.
9. ↑ ch.srichinmoyraces.org: [1] , accessed on March 3, 2020
10. ↑ srichinmoyraces.com: 2014 2014 results , accessed June 25, 2015
11. ↑ db.marathonswimmers.org: Marathon Swimmers Database / Lake Zurich Marathon Swim - All Years 2017, accessed on September 5, 2017
12. ↑ openwaterswimming.com: When The Egyptians Came Up Into The Swiss Alps on April 6, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
13. ↑ ^{a b} openwaterswimming.com: Marco Allegretti Leads International Field Across Lake Zurich on August 18, 2014. Retrieved on August 20, 2014.
14. ↑ ^{a b} openwaterswimming.com: John Zemaitis, Jo Yetman Go Bioprene Across Lake Zurich In International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Swimming 2015, accessed on August 11, 2015
15. ↑ ^{a b} ch.srichinmoyraces.org: Ranking list 2016 2016, accessed on August 9, 2016
16. ↑ ^{a b} ch.srichinmoyraces.org: Result Marathon Swim 2017 2017, accessed on August 8, 2017
17. ↑ evz.ro: Paul Georgescu won the Lake Zurich Marathon (Romanian) 2017, accessed on August 12, 2018
18. ↑ ^{a b} ch.srichinmoyraces.org: Results 2018 2018, accessed on August 8, 2018
19. ↑ ^{a b} ch.srichinmoyraces.org: Results 2019 2019, accessed on August 11, 2019