[FireWire]

World Sauna Championships Finalist Vladimir Ladyzhensky DIES At Event (PHOTOS) [warning: potentially shocking pictures]

A Russian finalist at the World Sauna Championships in Finland died Saturday and the event was suspended, according to the organizers, the AP reported.

Both of the events finalists -- Russia's Vladimir Ladyzhensky and Finland's Timo Kaukonen -- were rushed to the hospital after collapsing during the competition, in which contestants are made to endure temperatures of 230 degrees Fahrenheit (110 degrees Celsius) for as long as they can. Ladyzhensky later died.

How can someone endures so much suffering without backing off.. water boils at 100° C and they were in a 110°C room, it seems inherently dangerous.. I'm no scientist but doesn't the body begins to boils itself, being that it is composed by 70% of water?

At first I thought he died as a result of respiratory problem or blood pressure drop as he collapsed as they opened the door, but jugding from the pictures, they litteraly burned to death.. Ouch!

i'm also wondering why nobody intervened, since they were in a glass sauna and people could see them.. you can clearly see they were scorching!

[turtle777]

Some people are idiots. Do anything for fame or shits and giggles. No need to feel sorry for them.

-t

[Spheric Harlot]

Same with boats less than 21 feet in length.*

Go figure.






(*actually, 2.3 times more deadly, not three)

[Snow-i]

I don't see that particular event ever happening again. Dumb. What a waste of life...

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Snow-i 

I don't see that particular event ever happening again.

You mean that guy dying ?

Yeah, unless he's a cat

-t

[besson3c]

What is that gray stuff on their faces?

[turtle777]

It's not what you lay down on the kitchen floor think.

-t

[brassplayersrock²]

I like saunas and all
but geeze…. and I agree, what a waste of life.

[kylef]

This is on the same level as those hot-dog eating contests.

[Shaddim]

230F means he literally cooked himself, like steaming broccoli.

[Sealobo]

attention whoring could be fatal.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

What is that gray stuff on their faces?

deadness.

[The Final Dakar]

I was reading a few months ago about some guy who wanted to climb a chain of mountains or the 5 tallest mountains or whatever. He completed a few, and then while descending another went blind. So the people he was descending with had to leave him behind. To die.

Some people's sense of accomplishment outstrips good sense.

[Ghoser777]

Yep, here's the story:

Climber left to die after going blind on Mt. Everest | KING5.com | World News

You could apply the same thing for people who run marathons (like me) - when you push your body to its limit, there's a chance that you'll die.

[The Final Dakar]

He is the 30th person to die on the mountain in the past five years.

Jesus ****!

[Ghoser777]

Seems that 1 in 61.46 climbs of Mount Everest result in death. I think I'll stick to marathons!

[The Final Dakar]

BTW, those parents that keep letting their kids sail around the world alone need to be shot as well.

[Demonhood]

Originally Posted by Ghoser777 

Seems that 1 in 61.46 climbs of Mount Everest result in death. I think I'll stick to marathons!

Just watch out for those bleeding nipples.

[Ghoser777]

Had that a couple times - not fun. Nipple lubricants have helped a lot.

[finboy]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

BTW, those parents that keep letting their kids sail around the world alone need to be shot as well.

Tru dat.

[Railroader]

[Oisín]

How can someone endures so much suffering without backing off.. water boils at 100° C and they were in a 110°C room, it seems inherently dangerous.. I'm no scientist but doesn't the body begins to boils itself, being that it is composed by 70% of water?

No. A temperature of 110°C is not uncommon in saunas (especially in Finland—in the rest of the world’s regular gym saunas, the temperature will usually be kept around 80°C or so, but many traditional saunas in Finland are hotter). The humidity in the air is just very, very low, down to just a few per cent. The internal body temperature doesn’t rise to 100°C, naturally, just like the water in your body doesn’t freeze up if you go out into –10°C weather.

Obviously, if the humidity rises for some reason, the result is … well, exactly what happened here.

[turtle777]

I knew there was a perfectly good explanation.

It is unpossible that a sauna competition is NOT a good idea.



-t

[FireWire]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

No. A temperature of 110°C is not uncommon in saunas (especially in Finland—in the rest of the world’s regular gym saunas, the temperature will usually be kept around 80°C or so, but many traditional saunas in Finland are hotter). The humidity in the air is just very, very low, down to just a few per cent. The internal body temperature doesn’t rise to 100°C, naturally, just like the water in your body doesn’t freeze up if you go out into –10°C weather.

Obviously, if the humidity rises for some reason, the result is … well, exactly what happened here.

They added water every 30 seconds.. maybe they were scolded by boiling water dripping on them, like it can happen to firemen if they aim their hoses too high..

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

I knew there was a perfectly good explanation.

It is unpossible that a sauna competition is NOT a good idea.



-t

I never said a sauna competition is a good idea. Testing who can sit in a sauna the longest is a fairly dim-witted idea (but then again, so is pretty much every other kind of competitive physical sport—none of them is particularly healthy), just that six minutes in a regular sauna doesn’t kill you unless something’s wrong.

And if they kept adding water every 30 seconds, that’s a good place to start looking for ‘something wrong’. Doing that will create way too much steam and raise the humidity way too much. Why the hell would supposedly professional saunists do that?!

[The Final Dakar]

My guess is to speed up the level of attrition or to make the final found more challenging.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Attrition: succeeded

[The Final Dakar]

They over-achieved.

[osiris]

And over-steamed.

What a bunch of numbnuts. It's like having a competition on who can stay in a burning building the longest.

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

(but then again, so is pretty much every other kind of competitive physical sport—none of them is particularly healthy)

I would take a 95 MPH fastball to the ribs before I got in a sauna that hot for five minutes.

What a stupid, horrible waste of life....

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

I would take a 95 MPH fastball to the ribs before I got in a sauna that hot for five minutes.

What a stupid, horrible waste of life....

Presuming the sauna was properly maintained (i.e., the humidity point kept low), I wouldn’t.

I’ve been in a sauna that hot for five minutes and came out of it with no other side effects than a tiny bit of lightheadedness and an gigantic amount of sweating. I’ve never actually taken a 95 mph fastball to the ribs, but I can’t imagine I’d come out of that with side effects as minor as those.

If there’s someone throwing water on the stones every 30 seconds in the 110°C sauna, though, I think I’ll take the fastball, too.

[Jawbone54]

Ha...

If I had a chance of winding up like the runner-up, even...I'd take the fastball.

[ThaneVargas]

Originally Posted by Snow-i 

I don't see that particular event ever happening again. Dumb. What a waste of life...

The sauna contest will be held again the next year. A local "celebrity" [looking for cheap fame], will arrange it. Though it's not said that it won't be held in Heinola.

They never said that they would quit it. Only the organizer of world sauna championships said that it's their last time they organize it. So men proving them as macho, will still burn themselves. They should make the rules more safer...... well as safest as it can be.

[Sealobo]

meh. let them die. help to elevate the gene pool quality a little.

[ebuddy]

Finland's Timo Kaukonen; the undisputed WINNER!!!

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

I knew from my wife that Fins are pretty nutty about the sauna... but damn. That's crazy.

[abbaZaba]

this Timo person was filmed for The History Channel's tv show Stan Lee's Superhumans where they interview people with extraordinary abilities. I watched the episode that featured Timo and they had a warning at the end of the segment that Timo had suffered major burns and one competitor had died. guess it backed up their "superhuman" theme.

[turtle777]

Makes sense:

Superhumans: go into sauna and stay until they die.
Regular humans: don't bother with sauna, and live happily ever after.



-t

[abbaZaba]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Makes sense:

Superhumans: go into sauna and stay until they die.
Regular humans: don't bother with sauna, and live happily ever after.



-t

He didn't die though, thus superhuman

[Oh Cubeoid]

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