Overview
- Phillip Schmidt and Finley Liemen of Team Quad Safari Usedom won the 18th edition with a 20-meter time of 4.56 seconds.
- The mark beats the longstanding 4.91-second best from 2008, which last year’s winners had only matched.
- Organizers reported a deeply frozen surface that enabled faster runs, including a 4.88-second effort in qualifying.
- Schmidt competed with a replacement partner after his usual teammate was injured.
- The Ahlbeck finals added a tribune for up to 1,000 spectators, floodlights, leveled sand, a laser finish line and fire effects, alongside children’s races, a costumed ice bath and evening beach festivities.