[Ice Swimming]
Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 3, 2025

A Rapidly Incremented Tethered-Swimming Maximal Protocol for Cardiorespiratory Assessment of Swimmers
Published on: January 28, 2020
Katja Weiss1, Pantelis T Nikolaidis2, Beat Knechtle1,3
1Institut für Hausarztmedizin, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz.
Abstract:
Ice Swimming Abstract: Just a few years ago, no one could imagine that ice swimming could evolve into a competitive sport. In the past, people swimming in ice-cold water were called madmen and, at best, were studied as scientific objects. Today regular competitions in ice swimming over different distances (ice mile, ice km, and shorter distances such as 50m, 100m, and 200m), and different disciplines are organized (freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly). National championships, as well as continental and world championships, are also held, with new records set regularly. In this overview, we summarize the historical development of ice swimming up to a competitive sport and explore the risks in this nascent sports discipline.
Related Concept Videos
Buoyancy and Stability for Submerged and Floating Bodies
Buoyancy
Body Water Content and Fluid Compartments
States of Water
Water freezes when the intermolecular forces are greater than the kinetic energy. Unlike most other substances, water is less dense in its solid state than in its liquid state. This is because each water molecule can form...
Testing Water Quality
Hydrostatic Pressure Force on a Curved Surface

