Dr. Alexandre FUZEAU ("Ice Doc")is the pioneer of ice swimming in competition in France. He swam alone for one year, from 2015 to 2016, fighting steadily against prejudice with obstination and patience to make the sport known, grown and recognized in France. Dr Fuzeau is now the leader of thousands of followers in France.
After completing the first of his many Ice Kilometers in the first ice swimming world championship in Murmansk in 2015, Dr Fuzeau founded the FRISA (french ice swimming association) before creating the IISA-France association to represent IISA in France and introduce the sport in France, secure it, and create competition events.
Through many articles and TV programs for 10 years Dr Fuzeau focused on developping ice swimming in France, with a particular interest in medical approach. He is now a member of the safety commitee of IISA.
He helped to create the french ice swimming championship from 2019 until now and is a co-organiser and medical chiel of ice swimming in the french swimming federation.
Writer, Sportman, Emergency and family physician, he was instrumental in signing with Ram Barkai president of IISA and Benedicte Compois, director of FFN French Swimming Federation the first official recognition in the world of Ice Swimming as a sport, to pave the way to World Aquatics and Olympic Game.
Safety is one of his main concerns. As a doctor, his topics includes physiological studies and medical publications, confronting researchs with his vast experience in iceswimming, and endurance, earning him a Guinness book record as an iron iceman within the same calendar year and a nomination among the 16 best performances of the year in 2019 by the WOWSA.
From being alone to gathering many thousands in less than 10 years he co-organized and was the medical chief of the 5th Ice Swimming World Championship in Samoëns in France in Jan 2023, which is to date the biggest ice swimming event so far in the world.
He is married, father of four children, has accomplished a travel around the world by hitchhiking in 1993, rewarded with a first Guinness book record. He was also a former blue beret military volunteer, Royal Navy rescue helicopter doctor.
