Even supposing the final day of Vertical Blue 2021 didn’t spin somewhat the fashion Alexey Molchanov and Alessia Zecchini wanted, the 2 world-class freedivers can spin away Dean’s Blue Gap within the Bahamas with their heads held high as each and each got here out with the head males’s and girls folks’s overall ratings after nine days of jaw-losing competition.
Russia’s Molchanov got here out on top within the males’s Fixed Weight No Fins (CNF), Free Immersion (FIM), and Fixed Weight (CWT) disciplines for an overall point complete of 300.
Italy’s Zecchini topped the girls folks’s CNF and FIM disciplines and got here in second within the CWT components complete (Slovenia’s Alenka Artnik got here in first) to steal the overall prize with 259.9 components.
Molchanov was gunning for a 120m/398feet dive within the Fixed Weight with Bi-fins (CWTBF) discipline on Day 9, nonetheless needed to lower his dive immediate at 101m/331feet. Zecchini was vying for a girls folks’s 102m/335feet FIM world file nonetheless suffered a blackout when she surfaced. Given the amazing on-establish safety procedures and personnel all over the competition, neither one was the extra serious for wear.
Day 9 did, on the alternative hand, proceed to eye quite loads of national files establish. Amongst the males, Chile’s Simon Bennett swam past his 71m/233feet dive on Day 7 to establish a brand recent CWTBF file alongside with his 73m/240feet dive in 2mins 49secs. Italy’s Davide Carrera dove to 122m/33feet in 3mins 12secs for a national CWT file. You-Chieh Ku dove to 102m/355feet in 4mins 10secs for a Taiwanese national FIM file.
On the girls folks’s side, Turkey’s Sahika Ercumen dove past her countrywoman Birgul Erken’s 78m/256feet dive on Day 7 to establish a brand recent FIM file of 80m/262feet in 3mins 11secs. France’s Alice Modolo establish a brand recent national CWT file alongside with her 100m/328feet dive in 3mins 5secs.
Take a look at up on the stout Day 9 results under.
The final podium rankings are under.
Featured Characterize courtesy of Daan Verhoeven.
Additional reporting by Stephan Whelan
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John Liang is the Knowledge Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first received the diving worm while in High College in Cairo, Egypt, the establish he earned his PADI Commence Water Diver certification within the Red Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Flit of Costa Rica, and different locations including a pool in Las Vegas serving to to destroy the realm file for the supreme underwater press convention.
