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World Records Fall at AIDA Freediving World Championships 2009

World records fell at the AIDA Freediving World Championships 2009 Thursday, December 3, with William Trubridge (NZL) and Natalia Molchanova (RUS) setting new marks in the men’s and women’s Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) categories at Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas.

Trubridge, 29, beat his own record set last April by two metres to reach 90m below the surface and become World Champion. The dive took 3min 40sec and it is the third time he has broken this record in two years. Second place was William Winram (CAN) with 86m and Frenchman Guillaume Nery third at 78m.

“This dive was a bigger psychological challenge than I have faced before in a record attempt because there were a lot of expectations,” said Trubridge, “but my training prior to the event had gone very well, and I was able to draw confidence from this to remain calm on the day.”

Multi-time world champion Herbert Nitsch (AUT) dove to 89m but upon reaching the surface failed to meet required surface protocols which would have validated his dive. Under AIDA rules, an athlete must correctly complete set surface protocols within 15 seconds without losing consciousness in order for the dive to count.

New women’s champion, Molchanova, 47, also added two metres onto her own world record, diving down to 62m and returni..... [read more]

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