Konstanz
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Konstanz, traditionally known as Constance in English, is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany.
Open Water Swimming
- The Lake Konstanz Eismann is a 1 km open water swim held in February.
- Bodenseequerung Konstanz - Moersburg is part of the Bodensee Open Water Cup is a 5 km open water swim held in Bodenseequerung, Austria on 29 June 2019 that is part of the Volks Open Water Cup (Volkscup).
- 2.5 km Notwill Seecrossing in Nähe Luzern/Schweiz, Switzerland, final event of the Swiss Open Water Cup held in August 2019.
- 20 km Kvarner Swim Challenge in Cres/Krk/Istrien/Croatia held in October 2019 held in 4 stages.
- It was the start for Professor Andreas Fath who completed a 1,231 km assisted stage swim along the River Rhine in 28 days in 2014. His stage swim was called the Swim for science (Rheines Wasser). The assisted stage swim was first attempted by Austrian adventurer Klaus Pechstein in 1969.
- It was the start of Romanian Avram Iancu who completed the Swim for Schengen, Swim for Romania, a 48-day 1,032 km stage swim down the Rhine River from kilometer 0 in Konstanz to the Rhine River's mouth in the North Sea in 48 days in 2023.
External links
- Avram Iancu Set to Culminate the Triple Crown of River Stage Swims
- Avram Iancu Completed 1,032 km Swim for Schengen, Swim for Romania along the Rhine with a Heartfelt Mission
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