# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christof-wandratsch
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:50:58.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christof-wandratsch"
name: "Christof Wandratsch"
slug: "christof-wandratsch"
description: "Christof Wandratsch is a long distance swimmer from Germany. In 1990 he won the Lake Zurich Swim. In August 2005 he set the world record for the fastest ever swim of the English Channel in a time of 7 h 03 mins, beating the previous record set by Chad Hundeby in 1994 of 7 h 17 mins. Christof came extremely close to beating the record in 2003, failing by just 3 mins, finishing in a time of 7 h 20 mins."
tagline: "German swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WSWC_2018-09_Christof_Wandratsch_po_WSWC_2018_(IMGP)-.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1966-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.614796
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "كريستوفر واندراتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christof_Wandratsch"
    title: "Christof Wandratsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christof_Wandratsch"
    title: "Christof Wandratsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christof_Wandratsch"
    title: "Christof Wandratsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christof_Wandratsch"
    title: "Christof Wandratsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122874"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump