Four world recordsdata and a bunch of national recordsdata were dwelling on the significant day of the 2021 Vertical Blue freediving opponents at Dean’s Blue Hole within the Bahamas.
Russia’s Alexey Molchanov claimed a brand current men’s world file within the Free Immersion (FIM) discipline with a 126-meter/413-foot dive. In a dive time of 4mins 45secs Molchanov planted his flag to pronounce he wants to purchase the opponents.
“My dive felt honest, nonetheless I discontinue accumulate different opponents on this discipline and these valid contenders are here at Vertical Blue. I’m centered on moreover executing ideal dives all the draw thru all of the disciplines.”
France’s Arnaud Jerald dwelling a brand current men’s Fixed Weight with Bi-fins (CWT-BF) world file with a 116-meter/380-foot dive. Arnauld’s bi-fins dive took 3mins 30secs and he became no longer only huge recent on the cease of his dive nonetheless reasonably playful as he mimicked a “tumble of the mic” when he offered his mark to the judges as proof of his depth.
On the ladies’s facet, Italy’s Alessia Zecchini broke the ladies’s world file within the Fixed Weight (CWT) discipline with a 115-meter/377-foot dive, only to build up Alenka Artnik from Slovenia surpass it with a 118-meter/387-foot dive. Artnik had dwelling the previous world file closing year with a 114-meter/374-foot dive.
Alessia chubby of enjoyment and laughter exclaimed “I truly loved my current world file, for the shrimp while I had it!” The self-deprecation mirrored her admiration for the Slovenian athlete.
Alenka made her impossible dive to 118m in a like a flash time of 3mins 26secs. She commented after the dive:
“This day I became very centered, I didn’t sleep very critical closing evening, and on memoir of this, I knew I vital to dwell centered to develop my dive to the extent I vital to. As I began my dive, I believed of our dear friend Sayuri Kinoshita and devoted my dive to her. My dive became for Sayuri and on memoir of Sayuri.”
Amongst the national men’s recordsdata dwelling on Day One were Alejandro Lemus of Mexico with a 95-meter/312-foot CWT dive, Yun-Chieh Ku from Taiwan with a 101-meter/331-foot FIM dive, and Kehan Pan from China with a 70-meter/230-foot CWT dive.
On the ladies’s facet, Talya Davidoff dwelling a South African national file with a 64-meter/210-foot CWTBF dive, Sahika Ercumen dwelling a Turkish national file with an 87-meter/285-foot CWT dive, and Isabelle Winner dwelling a Bahamian national file with a 28-meter/92-foot FIM dive.
Compare out the chubby results from Day One below.
The birth checklist for Day 2 appears to be like to be valid as smartly without a longer much less than 10 National Memoir attempts announced!
Characteristic Listing courtesy of Daan Verhoeven
