Sven Elfferich
Sven Elfferich is a 17-year-old Dutch open water swimmer.
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Open Water Swimming Highlights
- He holds the world junior record in the ice kilometer in 12:31:84, set in 3.6°C water and 3.0°C air in pool at the Dutch Ice Swimming Championships on 21 January 2018. That swim is ranked second in history.
- On October 2018, he won the 3.9 km Killary Gaelforce Fjord Swim without a wetsuit.
- On March 2018, he won 1 km Obertraun Hallstättersee Ice Schwimming.
- On February 2018, he won the 1 km Lake Konstanz Eismann.
- On January 2018, he set the 1 km Dutch National Record in ice swimming.
- On January 2018, he won the 1 km Dutch national ice swimming championships.
- He won the Amstel Ice Swim on 30 December 2018 in the Amstel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- He was named one of the World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men in 2019 by the World Open Water Swimming Association.
- On 16 February 2019, he set the Ice Kilometer world record in 11 minutes 55.40 seconds ratified by Ice Swimming Association Austria in 3.6°C water and 8°C air in Freizeitverein Altenwörth in Altenwörth, Austria at the age of 17.
- He competed in the Ice Kilometer in the Zollhaus Open, an International Ice Swimming Association-sanctioned ice swimming event held in February in Hermsdorf, a town in eastern Germany on 23 February 2019.
- He is ranked #1 in the International Ice Swimming Association's Ice Kilometer rankings as of 1 March 2019 with a time of 11:55:40.
- He finished 3rd overall in the International Ice Swimming Association's first IISA World Cup Series in 2019.
2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nomination
Elfferich's Ice Kilometer world record swim was nominated for the 2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year award as follows:
At the Austrian Ice Swimming Championships in Freizeitverein Altenwörth, 17-year-old Sven Elfferich swam at a speed never before seen in the ice swimming world. His new world record for the Ice Kilometer was the first time that the 12-minute barrier was broken. The teenager swam a blazing 11 minutes 55:40 seconds in the 3.60°C water in a 25m pool build in a tributary of the Danube River. Breathing bilaterally and swimming with a very high body position in the water, Elfferich swims with textbook technique enhanced with very quick open turns. The Dutch teenager opened up a new chapter in ice swimming and will be a force to reckon with long into the future. For breaking the existing world record of 4-time Bulgarian Olympian Petar Stoychev of 12:15.87, for building upon his earlier age group world records and achieving his potential, and for his youthful exuberance and genuine excitement while serving as one of the ice swimming community's most acclaimed swimmers, the Ice Kilometer world record swim by Sven Elfferich is a worthy nominee for the 2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year.
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External links
- IISA Ice Swimming World Records + History’s Top 3
- Marcin Szarpak Wins 2nd International Ice Swimming 4th World Championship Title
- International Ice Swimming Association 4th World Championship Is On, As Scheduled
- Christof Wandratsch Goes 2 For 2 On The 2020 IISA World Cup Series
- 2019 WOWSA Award Winners Announced
- Travesía Interminable Is 2019 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year
- Gulf Of Finland Relay Is 2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
- Adherbal Treidler de Oliveira Is 2019 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year
- Mariel Hawley Dávila Is 2019 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year
- Ice Swimming World Records, Where Will They Go?
- Guinness World Record for Fastest 1 km Ice Swim
- Sven Elfferich Sets Ice Kilometer World Record In Austria – Weltrekord im Eisschwimmen in Österreich
- Sven Elfferich To Race At The Zollhaus Open In Germany
- 2018 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year Nominees
- International Ice Swimming Association Frozen News
- Ice Swimming In The Netherlands
- Embrace The Cold
- International Ice Swimming Association bio
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Ice Swimming World Records, Where Will They Go?
- Ram Barkai To Make Ice Swimming Announcements
- Cold Water Speed, Embrace The Ice
- International Ice Swimming Association
- IJszwemmen Is Echt Cool
- 2019 World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men
- Sven Elfferich Sets Ice Kilometer World Record In Austria - Weltrekord im Eisschwimmen in Österreich
- Sven Elfferich To Race At The Zollhaus Open In Germany
- World Record Holders To Race In Epic Battle In Murmansk
- World Record Holders To Be Honored In Murmansk
- Fergil Hesterman Win IISA World Cup Series
