Shark Freediving

The results are in for the ICARE Tophies 2009. Like I discussed before I find the final winner list a bit strange, to say the least.  But in the end, they’re honoring freedivers and that’s what counts.

BEST FEMALE FREEDIVER 2009
1. Sara CAMPBELL, United Kingdom
2. Natalia MOLCHANOVA, Russia
3. Kathryn McPHEE, New Zealand
4. Jana STRAIN, Canada

BEST MALE FREEDIVER 2009
1. Martin STEPANEK, Czech Republic
2. William TRUEBRIDGE, New Zealand
3. Alexey MOLCHANOV, Russia
4. Dave MULLINS, New Zealand

BEST FEMALE REVELATION 2009
1. Susy OSLER, New Zealand
2. Lidija LIJIC, Croatia
3. Saana PARTINEN, Finland
4. Maria Livbjerg, Denmark

BEST MALE REVELATION 2009
1. Bjarte NYGARD, Norway
2. Goran COLAK, Croatia
3. Martin PETRISKO, Czech Repuplic
4. Jorénik EKSTRÖM, Finland

BEST NATIONAL INSTITUTION 2009
1. Dansk Fridykkerforbund (AIDA Denmark), Denmark
2. AIDA New Zealand
3. Freediving Team of Finland (AIDA Finland), Finland
4. AIDA Croatia, Croatia

BEST CAPTAIN/COACH 2009
1. Kerian HIBBS, New Zealand
2. Bill STRÖMBERG, Sweden
3. Grégory PIAZZOLA, France
4. Ivo TRUXA, Czech Republic

BEST INTERNATIONAL JUDGE 2009
1. Kimmo LAHTINEN, Finland
2. Grant GRAVES, USA
3. Peter BOJOVIC, Serbia
4. Melita ADANY, Croatia

SPECIAL ICARE TROPHIES 2009
«Apnea Academy» (Italy), for its global work for freediving

You will find the complete detailled results in the new temporary ICARE webpage :
http://www.immersion-profonde.ch/crbst_12.html#anchor-top

Thanks to all the persons who participated to the nominations and elections ! Soon will follow informations
concerning the new ICARE Trophies 2010 !

I C A R E
International Center for Apnea Recognition and Education
Switzerland

For the people who want to, it’s time to vote again for the ICARE Trophies 2009. ICARE is short for International Center for Apnea Recognition and Education and was founded some years back by AIDA ex-president Sébastien Nagel. Together with Nicolas Laporte, Frédéric Busslinger and Marcello de Matteis, they form the staff for this company.

There has been some controversy around the voting system that says that you can nominate whoever you want during the year and in the last weeks of the year the vote will start and 50% from the voters will count for the end result. The other 50% will be voted upon by the ICARE staff. Oh well… There goes real democracy

I guess when the World championships are over I’ll start with the SFOTY (Shark Freediver Of The Year) Awards. Any suggestions for categories?

Dear freedivers,

The nominations for the ICARE Trophies 2009 are now closed, and we would be able to start with the election part untill December 17th, 2009. You will find below the nominate persons for each category, and a recapitulative of the election’s functionment.

Each individual personne could vote for ONLY ONE NOMINATED PERSON in each category, to the following address only : icare.lausanne@bluewin.ch

The nominated persons for 2009 are (by alphabetical order within each category) :

BEST FEMALE FREEDIVER 2009

• Sara CAMPBELL, United Kingdom
• Kathryn McPHEE, New Zealand
• Natalia MOLCHANOVA, Russia
• Jana STRAIN, Canada

BEST MALE FREEDIVER 2009

• Alexey MOLCHANOV, Russia
• Dave MULLINS, New Zealand
• Martin STEPANEK, Czech Republic
• William TRUEBRIDGE, New Zealand

BEST FEMALE REVELATION 2009

• Lidija LIJIC, Croatia
• Maria Livbjerg, Denmark
• Susy OSLER, New Zealand
• Saana PARTINEN, Finland

BEST MALE REVELATION 2009

• Goran COLAK, Croatia
• Jorénik EKSTRÖM, Finland
• Bjarte NYGARD, Norway
• Martin PETRISKO, Czech Repuplic

BEST NATIONAL INSTITUTION 2009

• AIDA Croatia, Croatia
• AIDA New Zealand
• Dansk Fridykkerforbund (AIDA Denmark), Denmark
• Freediving Team of Finland (AIDA Finland), Finland

BEST CAPTAIN/COACH 2009

• Kerian HIBBS, New Zealand
• Grégory PIAZZOLA, France
• Bill STRÖMBERG, Sweden
• Ivo TRUXA, Czech Republic

BEST INTERNATIONAL JUDGE 2009

• Melita ADANY, Croatiaa
• Peter BOJOVIC, Serbia
• Grant GRAVES, USA
• Kimmo LAHTINEN, Finland

ALL THESE INFORMATIONS COULD ALSO BE FOUND IN OUR NEW TEMPORARY WEBSITE

Best regards,

I C A R E
International Center for Apnea Recognition and Education