New! Swimming coach: Julia is a former swimming champion and is very enthusiastic about swimming. Once a week, she will be in the lakeside hotel Postillion from 1 July to 9 September, improving your swimming technique. Small stylistic changes and you will soon be a lot fasterat swimming across the lake.
Swimming lake crossing - 1042m
A weekly highlight: every Saturday at 11.00 am Lake crossing at the lakeside hotel Postillion. The swimmers are rowed out to the opposite south bank. After the joint start, they swim, accompanied by boats and the water rescue, 1 km back to the lakeside hotel postillion.
The beach is now a swimming arena. The swimmers come to the finish with a roaring applause. "I am now also in the book of the sea crosses" swimming in the lake from May to October? - Yes, no problem, if necessary with neoprene suits. Goggles, safety aids and neoprene suits for hire.
Swimming benefits at a glance
Weekly technical training with our swimming professionals

A short profile
- Many years of experience as a professional swimmer
- Several times Carinthian champion
- State-certified swimming instructor
- Head of the swim school Spittal/Lake Millstättersee
Whether you are a recreational athlete or just swimming to stay fit, a triathlete or an open water swimmer. It is often the small things that let you get tired too quickly despite a good base fitness. These small, crept in mistakes are hard to detect by yourself. And it is even harder to correct them. An experienced eye, an individual analysis (with the help of underwater photos and videos) and the adequate feedback with the right technique training often work miracles.
- Weekly technique training in a group from 1st of July to 9th of September | duration 1 hour | costs: EUR 5 per person and hour
- Individual training possible on demand
Water sports, a tradition in Millstatt
Whether swimming, tower jumping or water-ball, Millstätter athletes were successfully represented at various European Championships and Olympics. The nearly one-hundred-year-old landmark of Millstatt - the jumping tower, bears witness to this early and long water sports tradition and the close relationship between the Millstätter and the water.