Day 5 of the AIDA World Depth Championship freediving competition in Roatan, Honduras, saw two new women’s national records in the Constant Weight No-Fins (CNF) discipline.
France’s Marianna Gillespie successfully dove to 62m/203ft, and Poland’s Agata Zalecka dove to 50m/164ft for national records for their respective countries.
In a Facebook post, Gillespie wrote:
“Grateful to Mother Nature for beautiful diving conditions … I could not wish for a better day for the hardest discipline!”
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Not everyone got what they wanted, though. Turkey’s Sahika Ercumen was slated to attempt a 60m/197ft dive, but did not start.
Additionally, Hungary’s Fatima Korok dove to 67m/220ft but suffered a blackout upon surfacing. In a Facebook post, she wrote:
“Unfortunately, today I didn’t achieve my goal and I lost my second gold medal at the World Cup… Although I dived 67 meters without a fin in 3 minutes, but when I reached the surface I fainted due to lack of oxygen. I was exhausted in the last few weeks, unfortunately this was too much now … If you saw the live broadcast, I apologize for the dramatic passage, everything is fine, nothing wrong, I just fell asleep a little bit.”
Full Day 5 – Women’s Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) – Results
The AIDA Website gives the results as follows:
Diveye Live Stream
Check out the live stream each day of the competition on the AIDA Youtube Channel. Diveye, the remote underwater filming drone, is onsite. The replay of Day 5 is below.
Day 6 will be the Men competing in the CNF discipline. Keep checking back on DeeperBlue.com for all the action and results at the 2022 AIDA Depth World Championships.
(Featured image credit: Luke Coley)
