World record over the ice mile In the so-called extreme area, there are almost no limits.
A new trend is the competitive swimming in ice-cold water. The ice mile (1,609 meters) was introduced in 2009 through the International Ice Swimming Association (IISA).To date, 138 successful experiments were counted, of which 28 were by women.The times can be found under https://internationaliceswimming.com/iisa-ice-swim-records/ Recently, the German top swimmer Christoph Wandratsch has set up a new world record in 21:38 minutes.He was a few seconds faster than James Bridges, who had swamp the same distance last year in England in 21:43 minutes.