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NewsBritish Freediving News31/12/2009: The London Freediving scene is growing in momentum.London Freedivers in general have been left a bit high and dry recently with all of the refurbishments of the pools in the area preparing for the 2012 Olympics. The good news though is that things are already turning around and even more good news is on the horizon. A few pool sessions are being opened up so that the Freedivers who have lost their pools can camp out for a bit in their neighbours pools. Crystal freedivers are open again! This club was the flagship of UK pool training and is opening its doors in the newly refurbished Crystal Palace National Sports centre. There are details on the clubs page on how to contact them for further details. This represents not only a boost for our athletes preparing for the 2010 World championships as they are all invited to train there but also demonstrates the acceptance of UK Freediving as a sport in the UK with our athletes training alongside the potential Olympians in the National Sports Centre. Thank you for their kind support!! London Freedivers (the group formerly known as Richmond Freedivers) due to successful membership this year have extended their pool session to include more lanes for training. They are after boosting their membership to fill the extra space so please get in touch. These facilities are open to New Freedivers right the way up to UK squad members, training is given. Kentish town will be re-opening their doors sometime in February, please keep an eye on the clubs page for more news. Details of the clubs can be found here and if you have any questions regarding the clubs page please contact our clubs officer by clicking here. 22/10/2009: British Freediving Association AGM - Sunday 15th November 2009This years BFA Annual General Meeting is being held at the Kingston & Elmbridge BSAC clubhouse in Tolworth, Surrey, on Sunday 15th November between 14.30 - 17.00hrs. 21/10/2009: Kingston Sports Achiever of the YearAlan Barber was honoured by the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames for his exceptional achievements in Apnea, including his 202m Dynamic Record. 07/10/2009: Come and try a NoTanx Yang Training session21st October... Tooting Pool from 8:30 - 10:30 all comers welcome.Just £4 for 2hour session (£2 will go to the BFA and £2 will go the LifeBoats) Whether you are a rec diver or a competative freediver, this training session will help shoulder and back flexibility, as well as develop the correct finning technique, without straining the muscles. The correct muscles for Stereo and Monofinning are often overlooked and left untrained by premature use of full size fin(s). Our unique dry training exercises improve the dive reflexes and encourage the body to utilize them earlier in a dive, saving O2. Bring running shoes and comfortable trousers for the dry session,Bring Mask & fins for the pool session (in case we run out!!!) 22/09/2009: NoTanx Comp - 26/09/2009Places still available in the biggest UK comp. We have a total of 36 spaces in the NoTanx Comp on the 26th September in Vobster Quay (Only 32 are taken so far)... 1st Prize => Immersion Stream Watch The comp is open to any current BFA members.... 02/09/2009: Bahamas 2009 AIDA Freediving World ChampionshipsThe 2009 AIDA Depth Freediving World Championships, in Constant Weight with and without fins is taking place in Dean’s Blue Hole on Long Island in the Bahamas this coming November/December. The official Registration and opening ceremony starts on Wednesday the 25th November and closes on the 5th December. To enter you have to have achieved the minimum of 30mts CNF , 55mts CTW for women, and CNF 40mts and CWT 75mts for men. These need to be AIDA ranking dives after 27th November 2007. Only athletes who have qualified as the criterion states above or who have been awarded wild-cards by AIDA International may register for the WC. If you are interested in competing please send your request to chair@britishfreediving.org as an AIDA requirement states the BFA must ratify the individuals qualifications to the event organiser. If you wish to apply to AIDA before September 6th a reduced fee of 695 USD will be accepted for the entry fee, thereafter it will cost 800 USD with the deadline date of application closing on October 4th. To find out more about the competition or how to make payment for the event please view the official document by clicking here. 25/08/2009: New UK record!The Richmond Freediving Club is pleased to announce a new UK record in the Womens Static Apnea discipline. On Thursday 20th August 2009, at the AIDA individual indoor World Championships 2009, Aarhus Denmark, Georgina Miller completed a static breath hold of 6 minutes 4 seconds. The new record beats the previous time of 5:46, set in May 2009, also by Georgina Miller. Georgina has been competing for 2 years and trains at Pools on the Park Richmond, and at Fusion Leisure, Camberwell. For more information on freediving visit Richmond Freediving Club 17/08/2009: British team selection for AIDA indoor Freediving World Championship 2009The BFA is proud to announce the team selection for the indoor Freediving World Championships in Aarhus Denmark 2009. The Male captain for the event is Marcus Greatwood. The female captain is Liv Philip.The team members are: Female UK Athletes 2009 Male UK Athletes 2009 20/07/2009: Saltfree Double Dip Results UpdateThe Saltfree Double Dip comp was a success. To find out more about the results please click here to find out more. 19/07/2009: The Laurie Comp ResultsThe NoTanx Laurie Comp '09 went off without a hitch... 21 Competitors gave us plenty of performances to judge, film and analyse! The winner (voted for by the other competitors) was Lucy.. Her day is blogged on YouTube. She won an Immersion Dive Watch, "Well Done Lucy".In joint second Alan Barber and Sue White went away with brand new O'Neill Wetsuits... Unfortunately some people made some silly mistakes leading to lost points and a couple of DQs.Kevin won the Boobie prize for the silliest mistake (A dip BEFORE official top.. and Coach Touch!), but even this wasn't a bad prize... the most expensive snorkel in the world supplied by Aquanaut Divers. All in all lots of smiles and fun.. and a big thank you to the Officials and Judges. Keep an eye on the BFA site for the NoTanx Lake Comp in September.... 10/07/2009: The Laurie Comp - 11th July 2009The Laurie Comp is being held this Saturday 11th July at Tooting Leisure Centre. Looking like its going to be a good event, 20 competitors and lots of first timers (which is what it is all about).. All being run by volunteers from the NoTanx Club. As always the winners will be voted for by the Competitors... 1st Prize is a Shinny New Immersion Dive Computer Other Prizes include DVD's, Masks, T-Shirts etc. Everyone is welcome to come along and watch/help out from 2:30 til 9:30.... 22/06/2009: Saltfree Double Dip - 18th - 19th July 2009The BFA is proud to be sponsoring this years Saltfree Double Dip, the UK's freediving depth championships takes place over the 18 and 19 July at the National Diving and Activity Centre in Chepstow, near Bristol. Entries are welcome from athletes of all levels, from new graduates of the AIDA ** star course to those of you who have been competing for years. The maximum depth is 76m and there is no such thing as "too shallow"! Athletes can choose to compete in two disciplines chosen from Constant Weight, Constant Weight No Fins and Free Immersion. The entry fee is £85. For more information, to download the entry form and pay your entry fee - visit www.saltfreedoubledip.com. If you have any questions or would like to come along in a capacity other than athlete please email sam@saltfreedivers.com. We still need safety divers, photographers, judges' assistants and the many other crew members that make these things happen. 21/06/2009: 3 New Womens Freediving National Records in One Day!The BFA is pleased to announce that 3 new Women's National Records were set on Sunday 31st May at the 2nd Great Camberwell Breath Hold in Camberwell Pool, Central London. The Freediving pool competition, organised by athlete and UK record holder Liv Philip saw freedivers from all over the UK and the world, compete in static, dynamic and dynamic no-fins disciplines. In the run up to the World Indoor Freediving Championships in Aarhus in Denmark in August, some of the athletes were using the event for valuable competition experience and rankings. Alongside them were many new athletes who were competing for the first time. Organiser Liv Philip says 'we wanted to create a competition with a different atmosphere that would be motivating and encouraging for athletes and give the as near perfect an environment as we could to help the atheltes stay relaxed and produce good performances'. The girls especially took full advantage of the calm atmosphere - reflected by the result of 3 New National records being set during the day. The first record of the day went to Georgina Miller who did an excellent static breath hold of 5:46 putting, 11 seconds on Livs existing record, well deserved after some months concentrated training on this difficult discipline. The next record went to Mandy Buckley with a wonderful swim of 140m to set a new Dynamic-with-Fin record. Both athletes gaining their first National record and beating there male counterparts by some measure. The final record came right at the end of the day seeing Liv Philip break her own existing record and swim 106m dynamic-no-fins to gain her 8th National record in Freediving. 'I was very happy to do it as it was tough combining competing and organising - now Im looking forward to going home and sleeping!'  Camberwell Breath Hold 2009 - The three new national record holders The overall Winners with combined scores from 2 disciplines were Georgina Miller for the Women and Chris Holmes for the men, who was competing for the first time in a national competition, completing a static of 4:51 and a nice dynamic of 133m. Other athletes in the overall placings were Barbara Jeschke from Germany experimenting after swappping onto monofin for the first time and Martin Ashkenazy-Jones with a first rate no-fins dive and PB of 104m taking him into 3rd place overall just behaind Alan Barber who had broken his Dynamic record the day before. There were over 15 pbs in competiton at the event. Athletes can now try to transfer their pool skills to depth as one of the next ebents on the UK freediving calendar is 'SaltFree Double Dip' competition held at NDAC in Chepstow www.saltfreedivers.com . Athletes get to choose 2 freediving depth disciplines over two days. The event was supported by Fusion Lifestyle, Diving Matrix, Eat Natural Bars and the British Freediving Association. 30/05/2009: NoTanx CompOn May 30th NoTanx held a small comp... The objectives were two fold... Everyone had a thoroughly good time, and although there were only 8 competitors, 4 of them gained places on the National Team. Alan Barber set a New UK Dynamic Record of 202m.(congratulations Alan) Thank you to the NoTanx members for running the comp, MT, Steve G and Gad for judging and to Immersion. 20/05/2009: AIDA indoor Freediving World Championship 2009 - Aarhus DenmarkThe BFA is happy to announce the next Freediving World Championship. There are 3 disciplines DYN, DNF and STA for male and female athletes, and three places in each discipline - that is 18 places max. To find out more about the championship you can visit the official website by clicking here. The BFA will choose athletes on the basis of their performance in competition in the last 12 months. Athletes who wish to compete representing the UK should fill in this form and send it to the Chair by June 1st. Any statement in the form will be verified, with particular regard to performance in competition that should have been officially recorded. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details, and get filling in the form. 20/05/2009: Camberwell Breath Hold - 31st May 2009The BFA is excited that for the 2nd year running a Freediving event will be held at the atmospheric Camberwell Pool in London on sunday 31st May. The competition will be an AIDA National with guests organised by Liv Philip who has been working alongside Southwark Council and leisure centre staff. This year there are over 20 athletes attending the event from as far afield as Germany and South Africa as well as freedivers from all over the UK. Liv wanted to build on the success of the first event last year. "We managed to create an event where athletes had a safe and relaxed environment where they could build on there performance in a competition." After some fantastic performances, many athletes well exceeded their personal best and demand for a second competition was high. This year's event has doubled in size as Freedivers will use Camberwell to help them gain a ranking and try to qualify for the World Indoor Championships in Demark in August. Fusions' Centre manager Simon Cooke said "Despite competition stakes being high amongst the top athletes, the UK has a great mixture of experience levels and abilities, which makes the event so unique." Liv agrees: "The Great Camberwell Breath Hold has a fantastic, friendly atmosphere and allows new freedivers to compete alongside some of their heros, so everyone can learn from each other." This years event looks set to see many new freedivers in there first competition, and from the more experienced competitors, lookout for some big performances. After last years event, Liv and Dave King went on to set new national records. The UK's Alan Barber is in training to try to break his massive dynamic with fins record of 186m. Infact the mens Dynamic events look set to be very exciting to watch, and William Trubridge is coming to show us all what Dynamic no fins is meant to look like! There are 9 female athletes attending, nearly matching the boys in numbers. There will be prizes of coaching sessions with experienced uk athletes for best 1st-3rd placed freedivers in their first pool competition to encourage them to develop and allow them to build training contacts within the UK. The International judges coming to the Competition from Sweden and France are Peter Boivie and Francois Gaultier along with a fantastic team of Safety Divers, Doctor, and Assistants. Camberwell Breath Hold has kindly been supported by 'Eat Natural Bars', 'Matrix Diving', Fusion Leisure and the BFA. Spectators are welcome, entrance is free with a £2 optional donation going to 'Shark Trust'. 03/04/2009: New World Freediving RecordOn the 3rd April 2009 at 11.10am local time on Long Island in the Bahamas, British freediver, Sara Campbell, who turned 37 on Monday 30th March, set a new World Record in womens freediving of 96m Constant Weight on just one breath. The dive took her 3 minutes and 34 seconds, and although light-headed on the surface she successfully completed the surface protocol, securing a white card from the judges. On completing the dive, Sara said: "This was by far the toughest World Record I've earned. The emotional journey to 96m and back was just a formality, compared to the emotional journey of losing my mum last year, and struggling to dive in the most challenging conditions I've ever experienced here. I have completed only 17 training dives since I became World Champion in November 2007. I'm delighted to be back!" For interviews Sara can be contacted on 001 242 337 1247. Please feel free to call or email her at any time (doesn't matter if it's the middle of the night, she'd love to talk!) Photography and videos can be downloaded from Sara's FTP server. To gain access to this server please contact e-media and we will send you the details. Sara Campbell 26/02/2009: New BFA/4th Element T-ShirtYou can now order your new BFA/4th Element T-Shirt by sending the size required to our sponsorship officer. The cost of the T-Shirt is £19.99. 02/02/2009: New Aquanaut BFA members deal Aquanaut have kindly sponsored the BFA for this year. They are offering hefty discounts to all BFA members including an exclusive special offer of a set of GARA 2000 fins + Super Ochio mask for £95 (£5 p&p). 28/11/2008: The BFA Forums are backAfter experiencing email issues for several months, the BFA Forums are finally fixed and email notifications as well as registration confirmation emails are now working properly. Please join us on the Improved BFA Forums, it's still FREE! 24/08/2008: David King Sets New British Record in Constant WeightOn Sunday the 24th of August 2008, at the AIDA Freediving Team World Championships 2008 Pre-Competition in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Dave King's dive to 80 metres set a new British record in the Men's Constant Weight discipline. This beats his previous record of 78 metres, set in November 2007. David has held previous British records in Static Apnea and Dynamic Apnea and is part of Freediving Team-GB, who are about to compete in the Team World Championships 2008. 23/08/2008: Liv Philip Sets New British Record in Static ApneaOn Saturday 23rd August 2008, at the AIDA 2008 World Team Freediving Championship Pre-Competition in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Liv Philip completed a performance of 5 minutes 35 seconds, which beats her previous record of 5 minutes 32 seconds, set in July 2007. Liv is part of Freediving TeamGB, who are about to compete in the main World Team Championships and also holds the British records in Dynamic apnea and Dynamic Apnea Without Fins. The Pre-Competition has given team athletes a chance to compete as individuals in a number of disciplines, and David is the second British athlete to set a national record there. 09/08/2008: Philip Clayton Sets New British Record in Dynamic Apnea Without FinsOn Saturday 9th August 2008 at the Wellington Winter Freediving Championships in New Zealand, Philip Clayton completed a performance of 132 metres. The new record beats the previous one of 127 metres set by Alan Barber in February 2008. Philip, 40, originally from Lancashire, lives in New Zealand where he works as a Consulting Engineer. He has been competitively freediving for 2 years and this is his first UK record. 02/08/2008: The British Freediving Team 2008 has been selected The British Freediving Team 2008 has been selected! For more information and updates, please check our British Freediving Team 2008 page in the UK Team section of this website. 24/07/2008: Alan Barber Sets New British Record in Dynamic ApneaOn Thursday 24th July 2008, at the New Malden Centre, London, Alan Barber completed a performance of 186 metres. The new record beats the previous one of 178 metres, set by Martin Macnaughton in 2007. Alan, 35, from Yately, Hampshire is a relative newcomer to the sport and has been freediving for less than 18 months. This is his second UK record, as he also holds Men's Dynamic Apnea Without Fins, set earlier this year. 13/07/2008: Mark Harris Sets UK Men's Free Immersion Record to -67mOn Sunday 13th July 2008, at the SaltFree Double Dip competition in Chepstow, Mark Harris successfully retrieved his tag hanging 67m deep, setting a new UK record in the Men's Free Immersion discipline. Not only is this 3m deeper than his previous record set in Egypt in December last year, but it was achieved in the dark and cold waters (similar to supercooled Guinness below -50m) of a quarry lake, during a competition in which many freedivers had to turn early due to the difficult conditions. Mark is a very dedicated member of the BFA Committee, runs a freediving club in Richmond and currently also holds the UK Variable Weight Freediving record. 28/06/2008: Liv Philip Sets New British Record in Dynamic ApneaOn Saturday 28th June 2008, at the BFA Summer Outdoor Pool Competition, Liv Philip completed a performance of 122 metres, setting a new UK record in the Women's Dynamic Apnea discipline. The new record beats the previous long-standing one of 119 metres set by Hannah Stacey in 2005. Liv is an AIDA freediving instructor from Camberwell who also holds the British Freediving records in Static Apnea and Dynamic Apnea Without Fins. 24/08/2008: David King Sets New British Record in Constant WeightOn Sunday the 24th of August 2008, at the AIDA Freediving Team World Championships 2008 Pre-Competition in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Dave King's dive to 80 metres set a new British record in the Men's Constant Weight discipline. This beats his previous record of 78 metres, set in November 2007. David has held previous British records in Static Apnea and Dynamic Apnea and is part of Freediving Team-GB, who are about to compete in the Team World Championships 2008. 23/08/2008: Liv Philip Sets New British Record in Static ApneaOn Saturday 23rd August 2008, at the AIDA 2008 World Team Freediving Championship Pre-Competition in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Liv Philip completed a performance of 5 minutes 35 seconds, which beats her previous record of 5 minutes 32 seconds, set in July 2007. Liv is part of Freediving TeamGB, who are about to compete in the main World Team Championships and also holds the British records in Dynamic apnea and Dynamic Apnea Without Fins. The Pre-Competition has given team athletes a chance to compete as individuals in a number of disciplines, and David is the second British athlete to set a national record there. 09/08/2008: Philip Clayton Sets New British Record in Dynamic Apnea Without FinsOn Saturday 9th August 2008 at the Wellington Winter Freediving Championships in New Zealand, Philip Clayton completed a performance of 132 metres. The new record beats the previous one of 127 metres set by Alan Barber in February 2008. Philip, 40, originally from Lancashire, lives in New Zealand where he works as a Consulting Engineer. He has been competitively freediving for 2 years and this is his first UK record. 02/08/2008: The British Freediving Team 2008 has been selected The British Freediving Team 2008 has been selected! For more information and updates, please check our British Freediving Team 2008 page in the UK Team section of this website. 24/07/2008: Alan Barber Sets New British Record in Dynamic ApneaOn Thursday 24th July 2008, at the New Malden Centre, London, Alan Barber completed a performance of 186 metres. The new record beats the previous one of 178 metres, set by Martin Macnaughton in 2007. Alan, 35, from Yately, Hampshire is a relative newcomer to the sport and has been freediving for less than 18 months. This is his second UK record, as he also holds Men's Dynamic Apnea Without Fins, set earlier this year. 13/07/2008: Mark Harris Sets UK Men's Free Immersion Record to -67mOn Sunday 13th July 2008, at the SaltFree Double Dip competition in Chepstow, Mark Harris successfully retrieved his tag hanging 67m deep, setting a new UK record in the Men's Free Immersion discipline. Not only is this 3m deeper than his previous record set in Egypt in December last year, but it was achieved in the dark and cold waters (similar to supercooled Guinness below -50m) of a quarry lake, during a competition in which many freedivers had to turn early due to the difficult conditions. Mark is a very dedicated member of the BFA Committee, runs a freediving club in Richmond and currently also holds the UK Variable Weight Freediving record. 28/06/2008: Liv Philip Sets New British Record in Dynamic ApneaOn Saturday 28th June 2008, at the BFA Summer Outdoor Pool Competition, Liv Philip completed a performance of 122 metres, setting a new UK record in the Women's Dynamic Apnea discipline. The new record beats the previous long-standing one of 119 metres set by Hannah Stacey in 2005. Liv is an AIDA freediving instructor from Camberwell who also holds the British Freediving records in Static Apnea and Dynamic Apnea Without Fins. The BFA Summer Outdoor Pool Competition 2008The BFA committee is pleased to announce the final date and venue for the British Pool Championships 2008. The event is to be held at Brockwell Lido (South London) on Saturday 28th June 2008. This will be the first time that the British Championships have been held outdoors in the UK. For more information and to register, please visit our competitions section. 23/2/2008: Martin Macnaughton Sets New British Record in Dynamic ApneaThe British Freediving Association is proud to announce a new UK record in the Men's Dynamic discipline. On Saturday 23rd February 2008 at the 3rd German Indoor Championship in Static and Dynamic Apnea held in Berlin, Martin Macnaughton completed a performance of 178m. The new record beats the previous record of 156m, which had been the oldest of all British records, set by Dave King in 2004. The discipline of Dynamic Apnea involves the athlete travelling horizontally to cover the greatest distance on a single breath. The record, on its own is a remarkable achievement. However three facts make this record outstanding. Macnaughton, who lives and trains in Copenhagen, has only been freediving since Autumn 2007, which makes him a relative novice. Secondly, Macnaughton's dynamic dive is the highest result for anyone in their debut AIDA competition, an achievement that has escaped all the current top freedivers. Finally, Martin did this all whilst ill with a heavy cold. Martin rounded off his debut with an impressive 5 minute 32 second static breath hold, securing him 4th place in the competition overall. BFA Committee member Ben Noble, who was one of four judges attending said "Martin's performance was very strong, clean and clearly looked like he had more to give. A fantastic surprise for British freediving". The Berlin German Indoor Championship is part of the annual German Championship and is the 10th Berlin Master Cup. It attracts top athletes from throughout Europe to compete in Static and Dynamic. In recent months British freediving has seen a resurgence, with national records for Dynamic and Dynamic No-Fins falling in the last month, and also the meteoric rise of triple world record holder and 2007 Constant Weight World Champion Sara Campbell. 7/2/2008: Alan Barber Sets New Record in Dynamic Apnea Without FinsThe British Freediving Association is pleased to announce a new UK record in the Men's Dynamic Apnea 'No-fins' discipline. On Thursday 7th February 2008, at The New Malden Centre, London, Alan Barber completed a performance of 127 metres. The new record beats the previous record of 120 metres, set by Danny Coope in 2006. Dynamic Apnea without fins is one of the most technically difficult of the pool-based breath-hold disciplines. It requires precise technique and fine-tuned buoyancy underwater. Alan, 35, had been freediving for precisely one year with his freediving club NoTanx, upon setting the record. As well as progressing to a record-breaking performance so quickly, amazingly, Alan is able to swim further without fins than with. 9/12/2007: Mark Harris - Britain's Deepest Man!Mark Harris, also known as 'The Blue Lightning', sets UK freediving records in Free Immersion and Variable Weight. Mark set the new British Variable Weight record to 80 metres, 15 metres deeper than the previous record set by Paul Whincup in 2005! He chose to pull himself back to the surface by using his arms only, despite having planned a Free Immersion record attempt on the same day! Indeed, not half an hour later he pulled himself down the rope again. Unfortunately he lost his nose clip shortly after leaving the surface, but he chose to carry on with one hand holding his nose, pulling himself down with one arm only, to reach 64 metres below the surface and back up for a very clean Free Immersion record. On the same day, Ben Noble, also member of the BFA committee, became the deepest Australian freediver by breaking no less than 3 national records: a Free Immersion dive to 50 metres, a Variable Weight dive to 72 metres and 80 in the No-limits discipline! Mark and Ben both are members of the BFA committee. On top of the huge amount of work required by their roles, Mark also manages to organize courses and training sessions for the Richmond freediving club and Ben works for the Australian AIDA and is a forum mentor on DeeperBlue. Congratulations to both of them! More details and gossip can be found in this DeeperBlue thread. 1/11/2007: Sara Campbell Takes Gold Medal at the Individual World ChampionshipsSara Campbell, 35, British freediver and triple world record holder, has now become a World Champion in the Constant Weight depth discipline. At the Individual Freediving World Championships held this week in Sharm el Sheikh on the Red Sea, Sara secured a Gold Medal for Great Britain with an 88 metre dive in Constant Weight. Sara's main rival, Russian Nathalia Molchanova, who has held World Records in all six competitive disciplines in the past two years, was aiming to reclaim her World Record title at the competition and again take home the Gold Medal. However, her announcement of 95 metres, an increase of nine metres on her former World Record in the same discipline, proved to be too much for the woman the sport has for a long time considered unbeatable. 1/11/2007: Dave King sets British Freediving Record in Constant Weight.The British Freediving Association is pleased to announce a new UK Record in Constant Weight for David King. On the 1st November 2007, David achieved a depth of 78 metres, whereby he had to swim using a single monofin to that depth and back again. This took place at the 4th Individual World Championship in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The previous record holder Alun George, had set the depth to 76 metres in 2004. 22/10/2007: Marcus Greatwood sets new British Freediving Record in Free Immersion.The British Freediving Association is pleased to announce a new UK Record in Free Immersion for Marcus Greatwood. On the 19th October 2007, Marcus achieved a depth of 61 metres, whereby he had to pull himself on a submerged line to that depth and back again. This took place at the 'Triple Depth' competition, in Dahab, Egypt. The previous record holder had set the depth to 60 metres in 2005. 21/10/2007: Sara Campbell sets 3 Freediving World Records in 2 days!'Triple Depth' international freediving competition, Dahab, Egypt: Londoner Sara Campbell has rescued British Sport from the doldrums this weekend, with a spectacular coup of 3 World Freediving records, over a 48 hour period. This is nothing short of amazing, and has knocked the world freediving community sideways. On Friday the 19th of October 2007, Sara surprised everyone in the opening discipline of Free Immersion when she reached a depth of 81 metres, pulling down a measured line using arms only. In doing so, she relieved Russian freediving stalwart Natalia Molchanova of her previous record of 80 metres. Just one day later, spectators were staggered to find that Campbell had posted a depth of no less than 90 metres for Constant Weight, where the athlete must descend using swim fin(s). This was viewed as a gross over-estimate for the diminutive newcomer, who has been freediving for less than one year. With utter disbelief, the audience were shown just what grit and determination can result in, when Sara returned to the surface with a depth tag. Not only had she beaten the previous World record holder Mandy-Rae Cruikshank, but had done so by an extra 2 metres. On Sunday the 21st of October, the final day of the competition, there were no surprises that Sara would aim deep for another world record, this time in Constant Weight No-Fins. As the name suggests, a swim to the depths with no assistance of any kind, with Nataila Molchanova again the title holder with 55 metres. Sara reached a metre deeper to beat this, setting the new CNF world record to 56 metres. |
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