Day 2 of the CMAS Indoor Pool Freediving World Championships saw two new world records, with Magdanelna Solich-Talanda and Goran Colak taking home the women”s and men’s gold in the Dynamic with Bifins (DYNB) discipline.
For the women’s category, Poland’s Solich-Talanda got her gold medal with a new world record dive of 263.64m/864.96ft.
Second place and the silver medal went to Livia Bregonzio from Italy with a swim of 243.40m/798.56ft, and the bronze medal went to Spain’s Gemma Vila Catala with a 211m/892.26ft dive.
In the men’s category, Croatia’s Colak won the gold medal with his new world record swim of 292.15m/958.5ft.
The silver medal went to Colak’s countryman David Custic who swam 276.55m/907.32ft, and third place went to France’s Guillaume Bourdila (the former world record holder) with 273.03m/895.77ft.
Poland’s Matt Malina, who nabbed first place the day before in the Dynamic No Fins (DNF) discipline, decided to not compete on Day 2.
Age Group World Records
A bunch of age group world records fell on Day 2 as well.
In the men’s masters category for ages 50-54, Russia’s Vladimir Amvrosov, swimming under no flag due to CMAS’s ban on Russian athletes stemming from that country’s invasion of Ukraine, won the gold medal with a 200m/656.17ft dive. The Silver medal went to Lemay AlVarez from Cuba for his 195.68m/641.99ft swim and the bronze medal went to France’s Arnault Manner for his 193.28m/634.12ft dive.
No women competed in this age category.
In the men’s 55-59 age group, Spain’s Nacho Peral claimed the gold medal and an age group world record with his 203.56m/667.85ft dive, barely edging out Poland’s Grzegorz Mucha who earned the silver medal for his 203.48m/667.59ft swim. Marco Massi from Italy rounded out the podium with his bronze medal 175.40m/575.46ft dive.
On the women’s masters 55-59 age group, France’s Laurence Gueguen swam an age group world record of 185.50m/608.6ft. Serbia’s Natasa Boscovic, the previous world record holder for that age group, won second place with 152.98m/501.9ft. The bronze medal went to Germany’s Birgit Wesemann, who swam 135.91m/445.9ft.
As for the men’s masters 60-64 category, Italy’s Francesco Franceschinis nabbed the gold medal plus an age group world record with his dive of 155.05m/508.69ft, and Seitzerland’s Alberto Gannini earned a silver medal with his 139.16m/456.56ft swim.
In the women’s masters 60-64 category, Germany’s Ute Weinrich won gold and surpassed her own previous world record with a 105.70m/346.78ft swim.
In the men’s juniors category, the gold medal went to France’s Jules Forest with his 159.33m/522.74ft dive; Turkey’s Nida Murathan Bulut came in second place with 134.80m/442.26ft and the bronze medal went to Turkey’s Muhammad Baran Iscan with a 79.50m/260.83ft dive.
The female junior category saw Turkey’s Toprak Toprak nab the gold medal for her dive of 136.10m/446.52ft, followed by Ecuador’s Sabine Manz Romero who won the silver medal with 121.98m/400.2ft, and Turkey’s Alya Akar who won the bronze medal with an 80.24m/263.25ft dive.
Check out the full results as well as the video replay of Day 2 below.
