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That's right, but this information is rarely available in the result files. So if the performance comes marked as DNF, it is categorized so. Often there isn't even any note if it was done within DYN or as a separate discipline. So theoretically I could look up whether DNF was announced for that competition, but that information is missing often too. It means untill a more structural registration system is in place, where organizers will be forced to enter all correctly directly into the database, instead of passing to AIDA incomplete data sheets in the weirdest formats you can imagine, I am afraid you'll have to be satisfied with the data as it is. However, from purely informational point of view, I believe it is more just to see a performance done without fins as DNF, than having it under DYN, even if it is perhaps sometimes not following the regulation of the competition.I guess it depends if the competition was announced as a DYN/DNF (which I think most competitions are) or just DYN (where you still are allowed to swim without fins but the result will still count as a DYN-result).
Time for an update: there are many more results in the database, diverse errors and problems fixed, but especially there is a new feature that will certainly interest everyone - I added personal data and statistics to the the competitor's page.
If you click a name on the results list, you land on a page of the respective competitor which lists all his/her results (either globally in all history, or in a scope selected in the menu: federation, year, discipline, etc.). That was there since the beginning, but now, on the left side there is a new pane with available personal data of the competitor, with a photo (if available, but there are around 1000 of them), and with different statistical data: the number of recorded performances, the numbers of medals, number of World Championship performances, number and/or percentages of white, yellow, and red cards, blackouts, DNS, etc.
And below it, there is a table with best performances in each discipline, with the world and national ranks, and with the percentage of the average and maximal world and national performance in given discipline.
The first table shows global results (all time, and all competitions, even those non-ranking, or done under other federations than AIDA). But if you select a limited scope (federation, year), there is another similar table below it, with ranks and percentages in that year, and under the specified federation. Basically either AIDA or CMAS - the other ones are either included under CMAS (FFESSM, FIPSAS), or ignored because they practically only sanction records (IAFD, FREE). If you select AIDA, you get the ranks calculated only with results from competition with the "ranking" status.