Adrian Alejandro Wittwer

Adrian Alejandro Wittwer
Personal information
NationalitySwiss
Born (1986-07-06) July 6, 1986 (age 38)
Sport
SportSwimming

Adrian Alejandro Wittwer (born 1986)[1] is a Swiss extreme athlete and ice swimmer.

Life

Wittwer lives in Bolligen in the Canton of Bern.[2] As an extreme athlete he participated in cross country running and marathons[3] as well as extreme swimming. In 2012, Wittwer successfully transversally crossed Lake Constace. In 2013, he tried to cross the longitude of the lake from Bodman-Ludwigshafen to Bregenz, a distance no one ever completed.[4] He had to abort after 27 of the 64 kilometres because of weather conditions.[5][6]

Through other extreme swimmers Wittwer got into ice swimming[2][7] and qualified for the Ice Swimming World Championship in 2017. He participated in the WC in 2018 in Tallinn and won 6th place in the 200m breaststroke competition.[8] In the German Opens in 2018 he qualified for the WC in 2019.[9][10]

In February 2019, Wittwer completed the Ice Mile Challenge,[11][12] which means swimming a mile in water below 5 °C with only goggles, a swimming cap and swim trunks, in 3 °C cold water in 41 minutes and 46 seconds.[13] He is the first Swiss man to complete this challenge. In March 2019 Wittwer won 2nd place in the WC for 50m breaststroke.

Wittwer works for the Swiss Military at the department for defence, public safety and sports. In 2017, Wittwer was part of a NATO mission to Kosovo for 6 months, as part of a peace supporting operation of Swisscoy, He is active for the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland and is part of the volunteer fire department.[14]

References

  1. ^ Ltd, Magnolia International. "Adrian Alejandro Wittwer". mittellandnord.grunliberale.ch (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  2. ^ a b "Eisschwimmen - Adrian Alejandro Wittwer springt fast täglich ins kalte Wasser". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2019-02-16. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  3. ^ AG, Thuner Tagblatt, Tamedia Espace (4 July 2013). "Wittwer will 40 Stunden crawlen". www.thunertagblatt.ch (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2019-09-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Rekord-Versuch über 64 Kilometer: Berner (26) will durch den Bodensee schwimmen". Blick. 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  5. ^ "Wieder ein Extremschwimmer im Bodensee gescheitert". FOCUS Online (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  6. ^ "Bodenseequerung - Rekorde". www.bodenseequerung.de. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  7. ^ Zwingli, Urs-Peter. "Schwimmen im eiskalten Wasser: So fördert es die Gesundheit". NZZ am Sonntag (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  8. ^ ""Man darf nicht überlegen, wie kalt das Wasser ist"". 20 Minuten (in German). 11 March 2018. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  9. ^ "Berner Extremsportler will die "Ice Mile" schaffen". 20 Minuten (in German). 31 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  10. ^ "Berner Eisschwimmer holt sich WM-Startplatz". 20 Minuten (in German). 8 January 2017. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  11. ^ "Unterkühlter Schwimmer schaffte die "Ice Mile"". 20 Minuten (in German). 3 February 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  12. ^ Bolliger schwimmt die Eismeile, retrieved 2019-09-25
  13. ^ "Rekord – Berner schwimmt die Eismeile". Berner Zeitung, Tamedia Espace (in German). ISSN 1424-1021. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  14. ^ "Eiskalte Leidenschaft | Migros-Magazin". Migros Medien (in German). 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-09-22.


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