Super10Fight: Athletes against comedians

At the Super10Kampf, sports stars compete as gladiators. The Divertimento duo is back for the anniversary - will Jonny and Manu beat the athletes this time?

It was 2007 when Jonny Fischer and Manu Burkart from Cabaret Divertimento took part in the Super10Kampf. The competition left a lasting impression on them - as Manu vividly described in "Divertimento - Das Buch" in 2013: "We were on 'Team Red'. Clear outsiders. The decathlon disciplines were actually planned for the next Summer Olympics. Rowing a boat on rollers through the hall, for example.

DIVERTIMENTO - Jonny Fischer (l.) and Manu Burkart are known for their dynamic<br />comedy shows - will they also score as gladiators this time?

Or transporting long-grain rice over the Great Wall of China, faithfully reproduced with harasses." Right from the start, the situation was pretty hopeless for the two comedians, as Manu goes on to describe in the book: "It was absolutely clear who the 12,000 spectators would be cheering for at the end. The "Team Orange". Which, unfairly, consisted of professional track and field athletes, steely-eyed ice hockey players and nimble snowboarders. And who had never done anything in their lives other than balance rice over crates of drinks."

Manu may well have exaggerated slightly in this description of the opponents. But then things got serious - namely when the final discipline of the gladiator course followed. "I got through, Jonny didn't," Manu continues: "With the fighting machines of the opposing 'Team Orange' breathing down his neck, he overdid it, got his shoulder caught on a death trap and snapped pretty much everything that a shoulder joint contains. The opponent got a trophy and Jonny got a free ride to the nearby hospital."

924 athletes benefit from the proceeds of the competition

Dominique Aegerter, left, and Ramon Zenhaeusern, right, in action during the Super10Kampf on Friday, October 31, 2014, at the Hallenstadion in Zurich. (PHOTOPRESS/Steffen Schmidt)

Obviously, Divertimento's participation at the time left a lasting impression on Switzerland's most successful comedy duo. The Divertimento autobiography even includes an X-ray of Jonny's shoulder. But apparently it was all half as bad, because the next evening Jonny was back on the comedy stage with Manu, albeit with a bandage.

Nevertheless, the two comedians had a lot of fun - and when they were asked to take part in the fortieth anniversary of the Super10Kampf, Jonny and Manu didn't hesitate for a second - and so they are back on the show for the first time in 11 years. And they are probably already training in secret, as they will have to compete against well-known sports stars again this time.

The program of the big anniversary show includes the most popular competitions of the last 39 years. The Swiss Sports Aid Foundation first organized the Super10Kampf in 1977 to raise money for Swiss sport. The foundation uses the proceeds from the event to support 924 athletes on their way to the top.

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