My team

MY TRAINER: MARKUS ROGAN

Psychology & Psychotherapy | Los Angeles (USA)

I will train intensively with Markus in Los Angeles and will be professionally coached by him in the next few months until the world record attempt, in the key components of mental strength: motivation, passion, concentration, adaptation lifestyle, anxiety, positivity, setbacks and limits, mental attitude, goals, control ability in the sense of responsibility.

Markus was a professional swimmer. He competed at four Olympic Games and won two Olympic medals, nine European Championships and one world championship. He also broke the world record twice and carried his country's flag at the opening ceremony in London 2012.

Markus works as a psychotherapist in Beverly Hills. He gives workshops around the world that combine scientific and experiential foundations and focus on performance and creativity.

MY TRAINER: MARKUS ZIEGLER

Markus has been training me since June 2017 for a methodical training system based on swim competitive sports. It is exactly through these optimized contrast methods and the permanent corrections that I learn faster the complex movements of the swimming sport. In our opinion, the communication between trainer and trainee is essential for our training success. We have succeeded in bringing a purposeful, increasingly demanding training together with a healthy dose of fun! My first personal successes confirm the effectiveness of the method of Markus Ziegler.

Markus Ziegler was a nationally successful athlete in Austria and a coach for 15 years before getting an education as a performance mindset coach at the Performance Mindset Academy in Salzburg, Austria. He also received education at the Federal Academy for Sports in Graz, Austria. He obtained additional diplomas in sport psychology, high performance and communication.

Markus is a consultant for professional and Olympic athletes, teams and federations. Markus Ziegler and Markus Rogan co-facilitate workshops in the United States and in Europe.

MY DOCTOR: DR. MED. CÉDRIC GEORGE

"Dr. George, his crew and Martina are great for me." Andri's Klinik Pyramid Slogan, "everything goes up in the Pyramid Clinic". That's why, despite my handicaps, I'm able to set a world record.

Own practice since 1987
Founder of La Mandragore Day Clinic, Zurich, 1991
Founder of the Pyramid Clinic at the Lake, 1993
Responsible physician and Delegate of the Board of Directors, Pyramid Clinic at the Lake, Zurich
Founder of the Centre for Plastic Surgery, Zurich, 1998
Board Member for the GSMN Group (Aevis) and the Bethanien Clinic since 2011

MY PERFORMANCE DOCTOR: DR. MED. NORA WIELOCH

With my performance coach Nora, I have the opportunity to be under the best care of her personally and of her professional team. I will be supervised under one roof, combined with the best medical care, physiotherapy, training and fitness center as well as performance diagnostics up to the world record attempt.

Balgrist Move> Med is an officially recognized Swiss Olympic Medical Center. In other words, they treat all patients according to the guidelines of Swiss Olympic Federation.

University Hospital Balgrist, Move> Med, Swiss Olympic Medical Center.

MY DOCTOR FRIEND: DR. MED. DENT. MARTINA BRIEDÉ-EHRENSPERGER

"Martina, I am so grateful to you that you have accompanied me through all these demanding operations before surgery and in the operating room." You have actively laid hands and even had to hold with full force against the Latissimus Dorsi, my strongest muscle for my swimming world record attempt. An incredibly beautiful sign of trust for us both. Thank you.

Top Dentist Clinic Zurich, Briedé-Ehrensperger, Switzerland. My personal companion and Doctor assistant through my surgeries.

MY BEST PILOTS: ERIK UND PHILIPP

Pilot Philipp Ehrensperger at Swiss International Airlines, Captain A320, Instructor (TRI) A320 and his son Erik fly me safely to every bathing spot in the world.

MY HUSBAND: REINHARD RUTZ-MILIČEVIĆ

Marketing & PR. My number one in my life.

MY BROTHER IN LAW: FREDDIE RUTZ

He is a versatile artist: choreographer, director, event producer and videographer! He previously danced at many major operas and theaters in Europe, the US and Japan. Today, he operates as a business magician for large corporations worldwide and produces event and trade shows for companies such as Samsung.

Freddie advises me on live marketing and accompanies me with his passion as a videographer. He films swimming from the perspective of a choreographer.

MY MASSAGE TEAM: WALTRAUD MÜLLER & ANNEMARIE ROMANG

Bodywork

I regularly enjoy Hawaiian 4 hand massage with Waltraud Müller https://www.casa-vitale.ch/kinesiologie
and Annemarie Romang http://www.bodywork-massage.ch

MY DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER: MARTIN INDERBITZIN

My Survival Story is an non-profit initiative that documents uplifting cancer survival stories from all around the world with the goal to inspire other patients and families to cope better with cancer.

The project was founded in 2014 by the Neuroscientist, Filmmaker and Pancreas-Cancer-Survivor Martin Inderbitzin. Since then the project has documented more than 30 stories from four different continents and inspired more than 100'000 people to find their own way through the illness.