AIDA 2022 Pool World Championship Day 4: France’s Guillaume Bourdila Sets New World Record

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French athlete Guillaume Bourdila place a unique AIDA World Document in the Dynamic With Monofin (DYN) discipline on the final day of the AIDA Pool Freediving World Championship in Burgas, Bulgaria.

Bourdila swam 301m/987.53ft which in addition to to the enviornment file earned him a gold medal. The outdated AIDA DYN World Document — 300m/984ft — used to be place by Poland’s Mateusz Malina and Greece’s Giorgos Panagiotakis  in 2016 and remained unbreakable for six years.

The fight for 2nd and Third place in the boys’s division used to be fierce, with simplest a 1-meter/3.28ft distinction in the results. The silver medal went to Taiwan’s Yueh Shiang Hsu and the bronze went to Croatia’s David Custic.

28th AIDA Freediving World Championship - Day 4 (Image credit: AIDA)
28th AIDA Freediving World Championship – Day 4 (Image credit: AIDA)

As for the ladies, the discontinue two contenders were Polish athletes Magdalena Solich-Talanda and Julia Kozerska.

Solich-Talanda, the unique World Document holder in the discipline, brought home the gold with a 265m/869ft swim. Kozerska took the silver with a 260m/853ft swim. The bronze medal went to Japan’s Yasuko Ozeki with a swim of 214m/702ft.

The final competition day ended with a ceremony for the overall winners in the four disciplines. The Natalia Molchanova Awards got to overall men’s winner Karol Karcz and overall ladies’s winner Magdalena Solich-Talanda.

Take a look at out a video of Day 4 beneath.

John Liang

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John Liang is the Files Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first obtained the diving computer virus while in High College in Cairo, Egypt, the place he earned his PADI Commence Water Diver certification in 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 Flee of Costa Rica, and various places together with a pool in Las Vegas helping to fracture the enviornment file for the largest underwater press conference.