Day 3 of the CMAS Open air Freediving World Championship in Kas, Turkey saw one other males’s world file and a ladies folks’s continental file hassle within the Fixed Weight No Fins (CNF) self-discipline, while others had challenges.
Petar Klovar’s Second World Fable
Croatia’s Petar Klovar nabbed his 2nd world file at this competition with a dive to 94m/308feet. Poland’s Mateusz “Matt” Malina brought home the silver medal with a dive to 87m/285feet and Antonio Mogavero from Italy earned bronze with a dive to 79m/259feet.
France’s Abdelatif Alouach — who earned the males’s Natalia Molchanova Award for accruing basically the most blended functions over the four disciplines at the AIDA World Depth Championship this past August — would hang had the bronze medal within the receive this week with his 86m/282feet dive, nonetheless used to be disqualified for no longer doing the lawful floor protocol.
In an Instagram put up, Alouach wrote:
“Failure simplest has a popularity if we call it as such, without it it would possibly possibly maybe maybe presumably even be an experience, a step, a discovering out, for me it’s a true resolution made with conviction….
“The used to be no longer as expected, nonetheless what issues, I do know I did my finest this day.”
On the ladies folks’s facet, Ukrainian Kateryna Sadurska earned the cease residing with a dive to 70m/230feet. Australia’s Amber Bourke purchased the silver medal with a dive to 65m/213feet, and Hungarian Fatima Korok won the bronze medal with a dive to 63m/207feet.
Italy’s Alessia Zecchini used to be gunning for gold with a dive to 71m/233feet, nonetheless suffered a blackout upon surfacing.
In an Instagram put up, Zecchini wrote:
“What can I boom? -71m must were an “easy” dive and it used to be one other technically swish dive with comely emotions nonetheless with a red card!
“Essentially the most fascinating clarification is that I haven’t been sleeping nicely at all since I’m right here in Turkey… 4/5 hours maximum and I wake up with sizable bother falling assist asleep… most of time it used to be no longer doable. I didn’t are looking out for to be influenced by this nonetheless now I genuinely hang to get stamp…
“This dive would were worth the gold medal and as yet any other brought me so unprecedented remorse and disappointment.”
Continental Fable for Talya Davidoff
While she got right here in fifth residing overall, South Africa’s Talya Davidoff collected nabbed a continental file for diving to 53m/174feet.
On Instagram, she wrote:
“Became as soon as a comely fun dive and my eq used to be sizable! Had hundreds air at the plate!”
Never Too Feeble To Freedive
In the Masters category for males inclined 50-54, Denmark’s Jesper Stechmann brought home the gold medal and and age team world file with a dive to 72m/236feet. Turkey’s Birol Ozbek earned the silver with a 56m/184feet dive, and the bronze medal went to Denmark’s Peter Munk Truelsen for his dive to 42m/138feet.
For the ladies folks within the identical age category, Turkey’s Birgul Erken won the gold medal with a dive to 33m/108feet.
For the Masters category for males inclined 55-59, Pete Botman from the Netherlands earned each and each the gold medal as nicely as an international file with his dive to 70m/230feet, Germany’s Jens Stoetzner purchased the silver medal with a dive to 68m/223feet and Good Britain’s David Mellor won bronze with a dive to 58m/190feet.
In the 60-64 masters males’s age category, the USA’s Milton Drageset won the gold medal for his 38m/125feet dive and Germany’s Karsten Mohr purchased the silver with a dive to 28m/92feet.
For the males’s 65-69 age category, France’s Christophe Dromard won gold for his dive to 40m/131feet.
And at last, for the ladies folks inclined 70+, the USA’s Annabel Edwards took home a gold medal even though she needed to turn assist from her 27m/89feet announced dive at 24m/79feet.
Take a look at out the fat results as nicely as the replay of the livestream underneath.
