Ice swimming boom: Regensburg defy the cold in the Danube water!

Ice swimming boom: Regensburg defy the cold in the Danube water!

With the cold winter, the ice swimmers are also active again, while the temperatures in the Danube fall below five degrees. In Regensburg, Kilian Graef trains for the world swimming world championship in January in South Tyrol. The cold water hardly seems to make anything out of the athlete, while MZ volunteer Johannes Lesser dared to jump into the ice-cold water to try the feeling of swimming in the cold Danube, like Mittelbayerische.de reported.

successful final for Team Germany

On the last day of the world swimming world championships in the snow-covered Samoëns, Team Germany won in the 4 × 250-meter freestyle relay with a time of 11: 40.55 minutes. The season, consisting of Kilian Graef, Alisa Fatum, Christoph Karow and the newcomer Andreas Waschburger, showed team spirit and perseverance. Despite the initial difficulties, Alisa Fatum, who had previously shone over 1,000 meters as a world champion, placed the lead before Christoph Karow and Waschburgers successfully transformed second place into the first. Team leader Stefan Runge praised the strong team performance after the competition, such as swim.de highlighted.

Kilian Graef is not only the focus of the Regensburg self -experiment, but also in the spotlight of the international ice swimming scene. His successes and those of the entire German team show how rapidly the popularity of ice swimming is growing, where almost 500 athletes from around 40 countries now take part. There is a voltage in the air, whether the ice swimming could one day might become Olympic, which requires a variety of factors and collaborations between associations.