Christof Wandratsch

Christof ratchet wall ( born December 20, 1966 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German swimmers and fastest German at the crossing of the English Channel.

Career

In 1990, he won the Zurich - swimming. His first international successes he achieved on the 25 km route at the European Championships in 1991 in Terracina and 1995 in Vienna.

Christof wall ratchet swam across the Fehmarn Belt in 2005 in a time of 5 hours 11 minutes and stopped by 2012 the world record for the solo crossing of the Fehmarn Belt. In August his time by the Swiss Bruno Baumgartner with 4 hours 53 minutes has been further undercut by 18 minutes.

In August 2005, he set a new world record for crossing the English Channel with a time of 7 hours, 3 minutes and 52 seconds. As early as 2003 he had come very close to the previous world record by Chad Hundeby with a time of 7 hours 20 minutes and missed it by only 3 minutes. The experiment was recorded by Jörg Adolph in the documentary channel swimmers.

However, the record had only until 2007 inventory, as the Bulgarian swimmer Petar Stoychev again undercutting the swim time on this track by 6 minutes.

The Strait of Gibraltar swam Christof wall ratchet 2007 in a world record time of 2 hours 51 minutes. In July 2013 he crossed, the first swimmer without a break and without a wetsuit, Lake Constance, in the longitudinal direction. For the 66 km and 670 meter long stretch of Bodman -Ludwigshafen to Bregenz he needed 20 hours and 41 minutes.

Wall ratchet is also active as a triathlete. So he set in 2006 at Ironman Austria, a new world record on the swimming distance of: 3.8 km in 41:26 minutes. He was a member of the Abu Dhabi Triathlon Team - until its dissolution in January 2013.

Christof wall ratchet is a teacher and lives in Haiming in Bavaria.