Josef Köberl
Josef Köberl (born 1977) is a 45-year-old extreme swimmer, ice bather, winter swimmer, and event director and administrator from Vienna, Austria who is president of the Austrian Ice Swimming Association.
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Open Water Swimming Highlights
- He finished 10th overall in the 1000m freestyle at the 13th Winter Swimming World Championships in Lake Bled, Slovenia on 24 January 2023.
- He serves as an International Ice Swimming Association official.
- He serves as President of the Ice Swimming Association Austria.
- He participated in the 2014 Winter Swimming Championships in Finland where he competed in the 450m endurance swim.
- He is the event director of the Austrian Ice Swimming Championships, an ice swimming competition and part of the global ice circuit, a series of ice swimming competitions around the world that adhere to the rules and regulations of the International Ice Swimming Association.
- He is attempting to complete the Oceans Seven.
- He competed in the 2016 Winter World Swimming Championships in Tyumen, Russia.
- He finished 43rd in the 1 km race on 1 January 2017 in the Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany.
- He won the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year in a global online poll for his Icebears Hintertux camp.
- He was named as one of the 2019 World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men by the World Open Water Swimming Association.
- He serves as the event director of the 2019 Austrian Ice Swimming Championships held on 15-16 February in Altenwörth, Austria.
- On 16 February 2019, he finished 8th in the Ice Kilometer race in 4.6°C water and 8°C air in Freizeitverein Altenwörth in Altenwörth, Austria.
- He competed in the Ice Kilometer at the 4rd International Ice Swimming Association World Championship held in Murmansk, Russia in March 2019.
- He set the Guinness World Record for the "Longest Duration of Full Body Contact With Ice" on 10 August 2019 in Vienna, Austria when he sat in an ice bath for 2 hours 8 minutes 47 seconds. Köberl broke the longest time spent in direct, full-body contact with ice by Jin Songhao of China in 1 hour 53 minutes 10 seconds that was set in the CCTV-Guinness World Records Special in Xiamen, Fujian, China on September 4th 2014.
- He competed in the Ice Kilometer at the Amstel Ice Swim in the Netherlands held on 29-30 December 2019.
- He serves as the event director of the International IC Altenwörth (SILVESTERSCHWIMMEN), an ice swimming event sanctioned by the International Ice Swimming Association in Altenwörth, Austria on 15 February 2020 in 4.80°C water. It serves as the ice swimming national championships in Austria.
- He finished 5th in the 1000m freestyle, 2nd in the 200m freestyle, 3rd in the 100m freestyle and 1st in the 50m freestyle at the International IC Altenwörth in Altenwörth, Austria was held on 15 February 2020.
- On 10 July 2021, he attempted to complete an Ice Mile at 3,216 meters (10,551 feet) in altitude within the glacier crevasse at the Nature Ice Palace on the Hintertux Glacier in Austria in -0.23°C water temperature. He swam for 38 minutes and completed a total of 1,511 meters, just short of a 1,609-meter high-altitude Ice Mile
2018 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year Nomination
Icebears Hintertux was voted as the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year in a global online poll, nominated by the World Open Water Swimming Association:
Josef Köberl, president of the Ice Swimming Association Austria, loves the extreme. He loves the cold and pushing himself and sharing his passion with other like-minded athletes. So he organizes the Austrian Ice Swimming Championships and created the Icebears Hintertux, a 4-day high-altitude glacier training camp that is held in Hintertuxer Gletscher in Austria. The two workouts daily camp offers both extreme ice swim and pool training sessions. For organizing and teaching interested swimmers how to acclimate and train in high-altitude extreme conditions, for safely organizing glacier swims in a uniquely beautiful ice chamber in 0°C water and 0°C air at 4200 meters altitude, and for meeting the needs of channel swimmers and ice swimmers and pushing their physical and mental boundaries, the Icebears Hintertux camp by Josef Köberl is a worthy nominee for the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
2021 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nomination
He was nominated for the 2021 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Award by the World Open Water Swimming Association. The winners and nominees include:
Winner: Paul Georgescu (Romania)
First Runner-up: Neil Agius (Malta)
Second Runner-up: Joel Matos Ortiz (Puerto Rico)
4. Josef Köberl (Austria)
5. Dr. Jaiprakash Duble (India)
6. Pablo Fernández Álvarez (Spain)
7. Stève “Seal” Stievenart (France)
8. Simon Griffiths (Great Britain)
9. Bogusław Ogrodnik (Poland)
10. Joseph Zemaitis (USA)
11. Damián Blaum (Argentina)
12. Florian Wellbrock (Germany)
13. Stéphane Lecat (France)
14. Kristóf Rasovszky (Hungary)
15. Andre Slade (Australia)
External links
- 200m Freestyle at the International Winter Swimming Association World Championships
- Alisa Fatum Dominant in the IISA World Championship Heads to the Winter Swimming World Championships
- Open Water Swimming
- Alice Fatum Sets Ice Kilometer European Record at Hallstättersee Ice Swimming
- Paul Georgescu is a WOWSA Award Winner: 2021 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year
- International Ice Swimming Association bio
- Josef Köberl Swims For 38 Minutes In -0.23°C Water at 3,216 Meters
- World's Highest Altitude Swims
- Josef Köberl Is Confined To Set A Unique Distance And Altitude Ice Swimming Record
- Paul Bieber Sets Ice Swimming Record
- Seriously Extreme Series Of Ice Swimming
- 2020 WOWSA Awards – World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year
- Getting Ready For The 2020-2021 International Ice Swimming Association Season
- Petar Stoychev, Victoria Mori Win 450m World Titles
- 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships - Live Cam
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- International Winter Swimming Association Winter Swimming World Cup
- 200m Frozen Freestyle At Winter World Championships
- International Winter Swimming Association Winter Swimming World Cup Facebook page
- International Winter Swimming Association Winter Swimming Instagram page
- SILVESTERSCHWIMMEN
- Open Water Swimming
- 2019 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Nominees
- 2019 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year Nominees
- 2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year Nominees
- 2019 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Nominees
- 2019 WOWSA Awards Nominees
- 2019 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Nominees
- Open Water Swimming
- Amstel Ice Swim
- Nominate Your Favorite Product, Event, Movie Or Book For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year
- Christof Wandratsch Extends His Reach To The Cold
- " International Ice Swimming Association calendar
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- International Ice Swimming Association
- Austrian Ice Swimming Championships
- Aqua Sphere Ice Swimming German Open Burghausen
- Polish Championships in Winter Swimming
- International Ice Swimming Association Ireland 1K National Championships
- Dutch Open Ice Swim Championships
- Estonian 1 km Ice Swimming Championships
- Doing Ice In A Bigger, Global Way: The Ice Circuit
- Tunnel Tough
- Icebears Hintertux
- Aleksandra Bednarek Voted 2018 Voted 2018 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year
- Icebears Hintertux Voted 2018 Voted 2018 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year
- Ross Edgley's Great British Swim Voted 2018 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year
- Ion Lazarenco Tiron Voted 2018 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year
- Sven Elfferich Sets Ice Kilometer World Record In Austria - Weltrekord im Eisschwimmen in Österreich
- Who's Who In The Men's Ice Swimming World
- Josef Köberl Sets World Record In Ice
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Josef Köberl To Be Honored In California
