When you hear that there is an event called the “24-Hour Arena Swim,” what do you think of? Most would automatically think it’s an event reserved for professional swimmers who have been training their whole lives – but that’s not true. This German event is open to all! Swimming has a plethora of benefits; therefore countries like Germany have been encouraging their citizens to swim through events like these for decades pools across Germany host a public 24-hour swim Deutscher Schwimmverband (DSV) – the national German swimming organization – as well as Arena sponsor the nationwide 24-hour Arena swim program the event was held in 1985 to raise interest in the sport and showcase Germany’s public pool facilities the event has evolved into a fitness and health extravaganza open for all to participate in by swimming as many laps as they can within the 24-hour allotted time Swimming World caught up with participant Susanne Sutton for an inside peek into the event Sutton: I am from Germany and go back each summer to visit family I had seen the event advertised and results posted at the Bienenbüttel pool which is where I learned to swim as a child I was so excited when I learned that the 24-hour swim would fall into the time I’d be in Germany The Bienenbüttel pool during the 24-hour swim Sutton: I started swimming for exercise when I was 41 – I am now 53 I learned to freestyle when I was in my 40s when breaststroke became too slow for me you receive a “counting card.” You give your card to the counter for the lane in which you plan to swim give it to a counter again and continue swimming you submit the card to be counted in the final results Swimmers who swam 3,000 meters or more receive a medal Sutton: I swim about 3 times a week and usually do between 2 and 3 kilometers per swim I did not really train any differently before the swim My stroke is such that I don’t tire easily when I swim at a constant moderate pace Sutton: I had torn my ACL on my last trip to Germany and had an ACL replacement surgery in December My orthopedist said I could not do breaststroke until September It would have been nice to throw in a little breaststroke when I felt tired I only realized my fatigue when I went home and did not wake up until way into the afternoon I had thought I might go back to the pool and do a few more kilometers but slept right through Sunday afternoon Sutton: My favorite was swimming at sunrise with fog wafting over the water and few people in the water My least favorite was the shark tank right at the beginning of the 24-hour swim when so many people were in the water and I wish USA swimming would sponsor a similar event in the US I proposed to organize a 12-hour night swimming and camping event at my community pool here in Laurel people voted it down for liability and security concerns Sutton receives certificate and medal for 24-hour swim from assistant pool manager Jens Weissmann Swimming 10,100 m enabled Sutton to place 50th overall out of 300 swimmers and 18th among the women at her pool The longest distance swum this year was 36,300 m As demonstrated by Sutton and other participants in the swim anyone is capable of going the distance and improving their health How far do you think you could swim in 24 hours -All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff Welcome to our community. 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Commenting signifies that you agree to our Terms of Use We used to have a 24hr swim in our club every year longest pool swim I did was 18,000 yards in 7 hours I was getting ready to share it with you and you had already commented I am so impressed by the 36,300 meter swim That is almost a mile an hour for 24 hours but if you swim freestyle in a lane where most people are doing the breaststroke you’d catch up with them in no time and tap their feet I don’t enjoy that and I’m sure the person doing breaststroke in front of me won’t either Perhaps what they can do is isolate the freestylers and the breastrokers into separate lanes Greg LeGrand we should look if they do it in Hamburg next year and their 24h swim will be July 11/12 next year You can camp the night on their pool grounds Saw a swim team from Hamburg camp there this year ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Andreas Helgstrand and Paul Schockemöhle set a new stallion licensing auction record by acquiring premium stallion Vivino (by Vivaldi x Dancier) for 2.010.000 euro at the 2018 Hanoverian Stallion Licensing auction on Saturday 27 October 2018 The previous licensing auction record was 1.2 million euro which Helgstrand paid for Revolution three years ago. The most expensive horse ever sold at a warmblood auction, whoever, is still set by SPH Dante, which sold to Russia at the 2014 PSI Auction for 2.8 million euro The auction following the Hanoverian licensing was a massive success Helgstrand bid against Norwegian millionaire Kristin Andresen who went all the way to 2 million euro for Vivino (by Vivaldi x Dancier) The already 1.73 m standing liver chestnut is bred by Ulrike Buurman and was owned by Ernst Kemper Helgstrand and Joop van Uytert acquired the premium stallion Lord Europe (by Lord Leatherdale x Boston) for 800,000 euro Andresen ended up buying two other premium licensed colts: Duke (by Dimaggio x Sir Donnerhall) for 570.000 euro and the Dancier x Wolkenstein II for 120,000 euro The Dimaggio was also owned by Ernst Kemper who had discovered the liver chestnut at his breeder Dieter Hilz Lord Europe (by Lord Leatherdale x Boston)The best selling show jumper was a colt by Kannan x Stolzenberg He sold for 150,000 euro to Irish Cian O'Connor A premium colt by Embassy x Darco fetched 135,000 euro Schufro x Hofrat sold to Bavaria for 400,000 euro and the Veneno x Dimaggio sold for 120,000 euro The Celle state stud purchased Fusionist (by Franklin x Ehrentanz) for 165,000 euro The Moritzburg state stud bought the Bon Coeur x Rohdiamant for 155,000 euro Helgstrand also bought the Furstenball x His Highness for 100,000 euro The Vivaldi x Hohenstein fetched 100,000 euro Martin Schaudt purchased the Sir Heinrich x Furst Piccolo for 20,000 euro Kerstin Klieber bought the Le Vivaldi x Lauries for 67,000 euro A Bon Coeur x Wolkentanz sold for 87,000 euro while the Bon Coeur x Furst Nymphenburg went for 75,000 euro The Dimaggio x Scolari (named Daily Dream) sold for 80,000 euro to Flora Keller The average price for a licensed colt at this auction was now atypically high as 2 million bid pushed up the average A colt now cost 130,960 euro on average at this auction The unlicensed stallions also aroused a lot of interest A bay colt by Le Vivaldi x Rotspon (breeder: Elizabeth Kapp owner Heiko Klausing) sold for 54.000 euro to a Hanoverian breeder from the Lüneburger Heide The average price of the 32 non-licensed colts was 18,758 euro Photos © Petra Kerschbaum Related LinksKWPN Sire Vivaldi Stamps 2018 Hanoverian Stallion Licensing Ninety-Nine Colts Selected for 2018 Hanoverian Stallion Licensing Stalls for Rent at Durondeau Dressage in Peer, Belgium Exceptionally Well Located Equestrian Facility in Wellington, Florida Well-built Equestrian Estate With Multiple Business Opportunities in Sweden Stable Units for Rent at Lotje Schoots' Equestrian Center in Houten (NED) For Rent: Several Apartments and Stable Wing at High-End Equestrian Facility Stable Wing Available at Reiterhof Wensing on Dutch/German border Real Estate: Well-Appointed Country House with Extensive Equestrian Facility in the U.K. Rémi Blot The results of laboratory tests came as a surprise as ministers had earlier said there were "strong and clear indications" that bean sprouts from the Gärtenhof organic farm had spread the new and particularly virulent strain of E coli which has so far killed 22 people and left 2,200 people ill A first set of 23 results from 40 samples taken at the farm were negative Lower Saxony's agriculture ministry said in a statement "The search for the outbreak's cause is very difficult as several weeks have passed since its suspected start," it said "A conclusion of the investigations and a clarification of the contamination's origin is not expected in the short term." This is the worst possible news for both German consumers who face indefinite warnings against raw salad leaves whose cucumbers were wrongly at first blamed by German scientists The news also came too late to prevent the small town of Bienenbüttel 40 miles south of Hamburg in Lower Saxony's rural heartland being overrun by media while police sealed off access to the farm told a local newspaper he was baffled at the apparent connection given there were no animals or animal products on the site Locals on Bienenbüttel's modest main street of one-storey red brick buildings said they sympathised "It's not nice for the farmer – it's like the Spanish with the cucumbers," said one woman not after he's been dragged through the press." Fabrizio de Cesaro, owner of the town's Italian ice cream parlour, said he had particular sympathy for the Spanish. "There was a Spanish TV station in town today," he said. "They probably wanted to get a little revenge on Germany I think people should wait until they know for sure." the professor who led inquiries into two major UK outbreaks of E coli said: "They've done experimental studies on contaminating bean sprouts and seeing what happens to the bacteria during sprouting and you can get up to a million-fold increase in bacteria It's like incubating a culture of bacteria." which has seen doctors at hospitals in northern Germany work round the clock amid talk that some retired staff might be called in has taken on a parallel political dimension Russia has angered the EU by banning fresh vegetable imports while relations between Germany and Spain have slumped said before a meeting with EU counterparts: "We want compensation for the grave and irreparable damage done to Spain We condemn the slow response and are concerned about how this crisis has been managed from the very start." Exports show little sign of picking up despite the all clear for Spanish produce said Antonio Moreno of the Coag farmers' organisation in Almeria where salad crops are a major part of the local economy "I've had a farmer on the phone to me this morning saying that he cannot sell a single kilo of his summer tomatoes and he has had to ask for help to tear all the plants up." At various points in the last fortnight the finger of blame for the E coli outbreak has pointed at Spanish cucumbers a specialist potato restaurant in a Baltic city A general warning remained in place for all Germans to avoid eating raw cucumbers, tomatoes or lettuce. Germany's agriculture minister, Ilse Aigner, said "hundreds" of tests had determined that most of those made ill had eaten these items On 2 June, days after banning vegetables from Spain and Germany from import, Russia's government extended this to the entire EU. On the same day the World Health Organisation confirmed that the outbreak involved a new and more virulent form of E coli On Saturday the focus fell, briefly, on the Kartoffel-Keller after reports claimed it had been identified by scientists as a possible infection hotspot The following day German officials said bean sprouts produced in Lower Saxony were the most likely source Despite statements of increasing confidence about this saying such actions spread alarm among the public and damaged the agriculture sector Speaking ahead of emergency talks by EU agriculture ministers which has so far killed 22 people and made at least 2,200 ill had been contained to a relatively small area "I stress that the outbreak is limited geographically to the area surrounding the city of Hamburg so there is no reason to take action on a European level [EU-wide] measures against any product are disproportionate," he told the European parliament which involves a newly identified and particularly virulent strain of the bacterium saying cucumbers from the country at Hamburg's market had been found to contain E coli German ministers eventually admitted they had got it wrong The same process was repeated on Monday when tests on bean sprouts from an organic farm in Lower Saxony identified by German officials as almost certainly the cause of the outbreak "I would like to stress it is crucial that national authorities do not rush to give information on the source of infection which is not proven by bacteriological analysis as this spreads unjustified fears in the population all over Europe and creates problems for our food producers selling products in the EU and outside the EU," Dalli said "While such intensive investigations are ongoing we must be careful not to make premature conclusions," he added singling out Germany's actions in describing bean sprouts as the likely source before laboratory tests had been completed The ministerial meeting follows demands by EU farmers Sales of salad vegetables have plummeted around the continent while Russia has banned imports of all vegetables from the bloc There are hopes the Russian ban might soon ease told the Interfax news agency EU officials had promised to pass on samples of the E coli strain Two weeks after news of the mass outbreak emerged the source of the bacterium remains a mystery German ministers had said there were "strong and clear indications" that bean sprouts from the Gärtenhof organic farm a first set of 23 results from 40 samples taken at the farm were negative While the structure of the compensation package and the amount of aid have yet to be defined the European commission said on Monday it expected ministers to reach a provisional agreement at the Luxembourg summit "I'm not sure that we will actually have a legal proposal on the table tomorrow .. I think our hope is that we can reach an agreement in principle," the commission's agriculture spokesman The tests at the Gärtenhof farm came back too late to prevent the neaby small town of Bienenbüttel German officials said the farm could still be the source of the outbreak having previously been implicated in E coli outbreaks in the US and Japan the elderly and those with weakened immune systems should not consume them raw advice now taken up by the UK Food Standards Agency one EU source said the most likely solution for financial aid being discussed was to extend an existing EU crisis prevention scheme which compensates fruit and vegetable producers for withdrawing products from the market producers would receive until the end of June about 30% of the value of unsold products paid directly from the EU budget although the exact percentage was still being discussed Spain has threatened legal action against German regional authorities for wrongly identifying Spanish cucumbers as the source of the outbreak but the commission insisted the crisis had affected all EU producers There was already a problem with consumption before any comment was made about Spanish cucumbers," said Waite "The important point as far as we're concerned is that we find an EU solution to what is an EU-wide problem .. that supports all fruit and vegetable producers across the Union."