Constant Weight day 1 is over. The weather was rough and some big swells in the sea. Nevertheless most of the people made their performance. Aurore Asso from French even managed to set a new French national womens record with a dive to 72 meters. Congrats!
Last week Dave King set a new UK record during the BFA Pool Freediving Championships. With an awesome distance of 217 meter, it’s an nice video to watch! Happy Easter everybody!
During rest day Sebastian Naslund organized a small national record competition, where all freedivers who attended the world championships in the Bahamas could do an extra dive to try and break the national record in their chosen discipline. It was a great success.
The following 9 national records were broken:
Amazing list! Especially for Ryuzo, who failed during the series, but made up for it with a great 107 constant weight dive. And lets not forget Sebastian Naslund, who besides doing a lot of work as organizer, found the time do do a national free immersion record of 83 meters. Great stuff going on over there!
During the Evolution II cup in Italy, Italian freediver Gaspare Battaglia set a new national record in the discipline static (under CMAS rules). With a 7:46 minutes breath hold it was more then enough to break his own previous record which stood at 7:23 minutes.
Other news coming from this much hyped competition is minimal. Goran Colak attempted to break the dynamic with fins world record, but yet again stranded at 225 meters, which is still a major distance but not enough to break the current 250 meter record.
There was a lot of live streaming going on, together with some commentators, which was great. But the basic thing missing were the result lists, which I still can’t find.
Last Saturday it was time for the 12th version of the Long Night of Apnea which takes place every year in Berlin, Germany. There were 17 freedivers from 7 countries, 3 women and 14 men, which made for enough people to have a fun competition.
Winner with the women was Christina Kummel from Denmark with 158.8 points. She did a 5:07 static, 100 meter dynamic without fins and a total time of 19:04 minutes in the famous 16×50 dynamic event.
The winner with the men was Robert Cetler from Poland with 249,8 points which was made up from a 7:01 static, 180 meter dynamic and a 13:13 min 16×50. Strong performance.
Daan Verhoeven from the Netherlands set a new national record in the dynamic with fins discipline with his 169 meter dive. See the video below.
Complete results can be found here.
Veljano Zanki
Last Sunday there was a depth competition in Limassol, Cyprus. This competition was organized by AIDA Cyprus and while I don’t have the complete results yet, there was at least one national record broken during this competition.
Croatian freediver Veljano Zanki set a new national record in the discipline constant weight with fins by diving to a depth of 85 meters. Veljano improved his own previous national record he set in 2008 by 5 meters. No further information is available right now, but I’ll update this page as soon as I have some more.
Last Saturday it was time for the famous Rhein Main Cup 2009 version that takes place every year in Wiesbaden, Germany. It’s been a while since I last visited a freediving competition, so we planned to go visit it with Team Sharkbait.
As always the organisation ran without any problems after all these years of experience. It was good to see some new and old friends, so we could chat the time away. With 43 competitors from 11 different countries it was a good international field.
Robert Cetler from Poland won the men competition with a 7:46 minute static and a 175 meter dynamic with fins dive. Both are new national records and delivered him 180,7 points.
Second place was for Goran Colak from Croatia with 175,4 points. He did a 8:02 national record. Michael Mrozowski from Poland set a new national record in dynamic without fins by doing a distance of 158 meters.
Lidija Lijik from Croatia won the women competition with a 4:36 static and a 140 meter dynamic with fins. Total points 125,2.
From the 86 performances done there were 11 performance that resulted in zero points. I don’t know exactly how many blackouts there were, but I saw at least 3, with one pretty serious one after doing a 135 meter dynamic without fins.
All in all it was fun to be at a competition again. Team member Sanne Buurma wrote a article on his personal experience and put a video and some photo’s online. Complete results can be found here.
Andrea Zuccari from Switzerland is on a roll and has set a total of 4 Swiss records in 2 weeks. On September 20 he started with a constant without fins dive to 55 meters in a time of 1:56 minutes.
Two days later, on September 22, he set a new Swiss record by doing a 77 meter constant with fins dive in 2:19 minutes. The next day he sets his third national record of 75 meters in the discipline free immersion with a dive time of 2:45 minutes.
Yesterday he adds number four by doing a 120 meter no limits dive in a dive time of 2:45 minutes. Andrea performed all the records in Sharm el Sheikh and is an Apnea Academy instructor. Congrats to Andrea!
PS: I just read that another Apnea Academy instructor is on a roll. Glenn Venghaus from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) just did a constant without fins dive to 50 meters in 2:07. That’s an unofficial Dutch record, which currently stands at 44 meters by Daan Verhoeven. Apnea Academy guys are eating the right pasta!
Yesterday Andy Guldner from Germany set a new national record in the discipline constant weight with fins in sea. He dove with his monofin to a depth of 72 meters in Dahab, Egypt. It’s one meter deeper than his own previous record he set exactly one year ago. Andy about his dive:
4 Minutes until official TOP.I did my last breathes and made my way down into the blue abyss.It was very nice…no problems with ears, good bloodshift and pure calmness. Thats how a dive should be.On the bottom weight I was searching for the TAG and after a few second I found it on the BOTTOM PLATE
The way up was easy. Back on surface I performed a perfect surface protocol and the I had THE RECORD.Exactly one year since the last record.
During the NoTanx London freediving competition on July 11th Alan Barber set a new UK national freediving record in the discipline dynamic with fins. He swam 202 meters underwater on a single breath of air.
Somehow it seems easier to publish a press release about such a great performance, than somehow publishing the whole competition results on Internet. Too bad.
But anyway, congrats to Alan. It’s a great performance, and it appears he’s not satisfied yet. He wants to break Alexey Molchanova’s record of 250 meters. Good luck!
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