Belgrade CMAS World Freediving Indoor Championship – Day 1
Belgrade CMAS World Freediving Indoor Championship – Day 1
The CMAS 4th World Freediving Indoor Championship is being held once again in beautiful Belgrade hosted by the Underwater Serbian Federation and its very experienced president Mrs Bozana Ostojic who has very successfully hosted several world events, including 5 World Championships.
This year however, the championship is even more special as it will serve as qualification for athletes willing to participate at the XII World Games in 2025.
It has been announced that two freediving disciplines, those of DNF and DYN, have been selected to be included in the XII World Games that will take place in Chengdu, China in 2025, and athletes will be looking to qualify for this event.
Day 1: Dynamic No Fins
On July 6th, the first discipline for this championship, was DNF (dynamic no fins) which is considered the most technical and difficult discipline in pool freediving.
The athletes have to swim for a distance underwater on one breath using only their arms and legs without the help of any fins.
Many consider this discipline, to be the most natural and purest form of freediving.
Athletes were divided in junior, senior and master categories (females athletes diving first in each category, followed by the male athletes), and were all diving according to their previous best performances.
For Junior and Masters category the results are as follows:
Junior female:
1. Sabine Manz-Romero (ECU), 126,50m
2. Charline Augustin-Lucille (FRA), 118,50m
3. Valentina Paglione (ITA), 107,50m.
Junior Male:
1. Nida Murathan Bulut (TUR), 124m
2. Zarei Mohammad Hossein (IRA), 104,50m
3. Florent Vecchio (FRA), 98m
Masters M1 Female:
1. Tina Flora Acone (ITA) 134,00m
2. Sylvia Pozzi (ITA) 126,50m
3. Laurence Gueguen (FRA) 120,00m
Master M2 Female:
1. Claire Paris (USA) 134.50m
2. Ulrike Hofer (AUT) 104,00m
3. Raffaela Saccardo (ITA) 82,00m
Masters M1 Male:
1. Vladimir Amvrosov (CMAS1) 165,50m
2. Grzegorz Mucha (POL) 165,00m
3. Andras Mayer (HUN) 157,50m
Masters M2 Male:
1. Francesco Franceschinis (ITA) 130,50m
2. Edmund Uwe (GET) 125,00m
3. Frederic Maire (GER) 100,00m
Masters M3 Male:
1. Christophe Dromard (GER) 84,00m
2. Sergei Porollo (CMAS1) 81,50m
For the female senior category, World Champion is once again Yulia Kozerska from Poland setting a New World Record of 211,50m, followed very closely by Mirela Kardasevic who won the silver medal and is Vice Champion with 209m.
Magdalena Solich-Talanda, also from Poland, is in 3d place winning the bronze medal with a dive of 198,50m.
In the male senior category, Mateusz Malina from Poland won the gold medal and defended his World Champion title with 229,50m, followed by two athletes who won the silver medal, Vanja Pelez from Croatia and Kai-Hsiang Chan from Chinese Taipei who are both Vice-World Champions with 216,5m.
Congratulations to all the athletes and best of luck to everyone competing the following days.
Text Credits: CMAS
Photo Credits: CMAS
TV broadcasters: Media-Sport.com
