Alexey Molchanov Adds Another World Record To His Mantel At Vertical Blue 2021

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Russia’s Alexey Molchanov added every other world file to his listing of achievements on Day 8 of the 2021 Vertical Blue freediving competitors at Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas.

Molchanov dove to 118m/387toes in 4mins 38secs to residing a contemporary males’s Constant Weight with Bi-fins (CWTBF) world file.

Alexey Molchanove CWTBF World Record on Day 8 of Vertical Blue 2021 (Image credit: Daan Verhoeven)
Alexey Molchanov CWTBF World File on Day 8 of Vertical Blue 2021 (Image credit rating: Daan Verhoeven)

On the national aspect, the USA’s Lance Davis residing a males’s Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) national file with a 74m/243toes dive in 2mins 40secs, whereas Mexico’s Alejandro Lemus bested his 104m/341toes national Constant Weight (CWT) file on Day 6 with a 107m/351toes dive in 3mins 10secs.

For the ladies, Turkey’s Sahika Ercumen racked up every other national file — as neatly as to her 77m/253toes Free Immersion (FIM) dive on Day 3 and her 90m/295toes CWT dive on Day 4 — with a Day 8 CNF dive to 54m/177toes in 2mins 37secs.

Check out the fleshy Day 8 outcomes below.

2021 Vertical Blue Day 8 Results
2021 Vertical Blue Day 8 Outcomes

As for the closing day of the competitors, Molchanov will most certainly be searching to greatest his males’s CWTBF World File with a 120m/394toes dive, whereas on the ladies’s aspect Italy’s Alessia Zecchini will most certainly be making an strive an FIM World File dive to 102m/335toes.

With 12 world data residing already, this has been an unparalleled competitors and is determined to complete as impressively because it started.

Check out the fleshy birth listing below.

2021 Vertical Blue Day 9 Start List
2021 Vertical Blue Day 9 Originate Checklist

Featured Image courtesy of Daan Verhoeven.

Additional reporting by Stephan Whelan

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John Lianghttps://www.deeperblue.com/

John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving bug whereas in High Faculty in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Originate Water Diver certification in the Pink Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Flee of Costa Rica, and other locations including a pool in Las Vegas serving to to interrupt the world file for the largest underwater press conference.