AIDA WCh 2007, Maribor

Stig takes out the mens dynamics with fins with a 216m swim and Natalia breaks her own WR with an amazing 205m... DYN Finals | RESULTS | AIDA Individual World Championships 2007 | H2O team

Benny, nice 132m in DYF, sorry about the contact DQ in the statics - what happened there?

Congrats on all the amazing results! Especially the DB women!

So what's the reason for such amazing progress from the last WC?
-everyone has the newest monos?
-more dedicated training?
-competition experience?
-sacrifices to Poseidon?

Congrats to all!

Pete

Thanks It was a bit annoying to be 1 meter from bronze but I can live with it. There was just no extra meter in that dive. And it's an honor in itself to dive beside Natalia Molchanova doing a new WR. It doesn't get any better than that.

I wasn't at the last WC, so I can't compare, but my guess is also more competition experience and also more experience with our competitors: maybe we push each other more frequently, at least speaking for Elisabeth and I, who have met many times in competitions since our first one a year ago. We've travelled to competitions in Northern and Eastern Europe, so we have met our competitors and seen them strong and weak. And vice versa. I think that's part of why we are improving, at least in this discipline. It's easier to set achievable targets when you know the others. And the targets increase more frequently, when we compete more often... (if we are competing more often compared to the athletes at the last WC?)

Did you see that Alena Zabloudilova did 196m in finals and okay, she blacked out (how bad was it?) but thats quite a big improvement for her. For years her PB was 125m in DYN (as far as I saw in comps)then recently in a local competition in Slovakia she did 150m, then in qualifications 156m and now 195? WOW!

Aniko Hrabovszky

great results congrtulations

Is any drug testing being conducted at this competition?...If it ever occurs?

Men has improved from 153 (to reach finals) to 178 this year.
I think its due to training ;-)
And of course inspiring each other.
6 danish guys doing 175+ is of course inspiring for the rest of the world.

Eastern europe is realy presenting itself this year.

STA has improved 6.43 to 7 for men.
But in STA women we see a standstill. 5.23 and same this year to reach the finals.

the BIG improvements we will se in DNF.

more:
freediving in europe

Or directly to the WC page - if you can remember that long adress

PS. Alenas BO was BAD

PS 26% DQ in mens DYN qualifications

PS Yes Eva - there was not another meter in your dive - should even have looked better if you stopped -3 meters ;-)

Ol Dirty Diver said:

Is any drug testing being conducted at this competition?...If it ever occurs?

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thanks for the updates cebaztian looks like its just getting exciting glad to hear the organisations is so good. how are all the other db people getting on

It would also be interesting to see a competition with everyone using the old generation fins. Did anyone not use the Hyper/Glide model and achieve a good result?

I think if people were doping we would see a unusual rise in static times as well. I think it's a combination of equipment, psychology and experience.

I think it's just a matter of more people being serious about it. The winning results are not that much bigger - it's just that there are more and more people just around the corner, where as a few years a go it was only a couple of "star freedivers".

Which of course I think is a cool thing. Sadly, this means that WCs will not be the "gathering of friends" types of events they used to be, but there is plenty of room for such events. WC will get more competitive and of course, there will be more performances close to the edge too - as we see. Competitions are getting more serious. Good thing? Bad thing? Hard to say, but unavoidable...

Could we move any doping talk over to this thread:
http://forums.deeperblue.net/freediving-competitions/72247-who-doped.html#post653331

Holy S!@#$%^, Natalia topped all the men's times and beat her own world record by thirty seconds with a whopping 8 minutes flat in the A static final:

01 Natalia Molchanova RU 6'30'' 8'00'' 96,0 |NR|
02 Lotta Ericson SE 6'00'' 6'49'' 81,8 |NR|
03 Jessica Wilson US 5'00'' 6'00'' 72,0
04 Karla Fabrio HR 4'50'' 5'42'' 68,4 |NR|
05 Foivi Skotida GR 4'25'' 5'35'' 67,0 |NR|
06 Kathryn McPhee NZ 4'31'' 5'16'' 63,2
07 Elisabeth Kristoffersen NO 5'30'' 4'59'' -7 52,8 AP > RP
08 Johanna Nordblad FI 4'30'' 4'24'' -2 50,8

Not sure why her performance doesn't have |WR| on the right, as the results have been posted as official.

And well done Nicolas Guerry, winning the men's A final with a solid 7.34:

01 Nicolas Guerry CH 6'46'' 7'34'' 90,8 |NR|
02 Tomek Bryl PL 7'02'' 7'15'' 87,0 |NR|
03 Peter Boivie SE 6'30'' 7'10'' 86,0 |NR|
04 Herbert Nitsch AT 7'01'' 7'03'' 84,6
05 Ryuzo Shinomiya JP 6'30'' 7'02'' 84,4
06 Aleš Seliškar SI 6'25'' 7'00'' 84,0
- Antero Joki FI 7'00'' 0'00'' 0,0 DQ (failed SP)
- Stig Severinsen DK 6'45'' 0'00'' 0,0 DQ (failed SP)

Full results including the B final's result here: STA final | RESULTS | AIDA Individual World Championships 2007 | H2O team

Natalia looked great! So easy.. faking that she had trouble and after Lotta came up she relaxed again and just lay down till 8 and came up as if she has done 2 min... I think sp was 5 sec or so. To be honest I wonder why she even came up! My guess is that she's able to beat the men world records as well!

what were the times of Stig and Antero?

It's been a stunning couple of days, so much going on it's hard to keep up with it even while we're here. The dynamic finals were amaying to watch, both women's and mens... Eva came up and was very close but put in a magnificent effort to hold it all together and get a white card. Elisabeth came up a few seconds later on the far side of the judges, looked around, raced across to the other side of the lane ripping her goggles and noseclip off yelling i'm ok in the quickest SP i've ever seen. Natalia.... 200m..... TURN!!!! And when she came up she had such a stone cold sober pokerface that you would never had known what distance she had done.

Mens Dynamic - great lineup, and massive performances from all. Stig in front of Alexey for about 170m, then slowing right down until they were level at 200m. Stig looking over at Alexey and waiting for him to come up... superb stuff. Winram doing over 200m was crazy too, Henning brilliant as always but unfortunately had trouble after he surfaced, which the judge should have picked straight away rather than the ongoing protest mess.

Static this morning - quite a few surprises, a lot of people were completely spent so couldn't fight much knowing how tired they were and the fact that DNF was later on. A few missed their announced performances, poor old Carlos was still on the other side of the pool with 1 minute until OT. Natalia = machine. Coming up after 8 minutes with the same poker face... it's definitely her comp. Jess Wilson gets the "triumph over adversity" award - I think she has thrown up before every event so far and still done well.

Me - dynamic felt shocking but managed a PB so that put me in a good frame of mind. The static was also a comp PB however due to the coach touching after me after I surfaced I got a red card. It was completely bad luck - I blew air out at 5:46 and she was worried I was losing it and touched my shoulder but by that stage my airway was well out of the water so it was a DQ. I protested but it was fairly clear on the video. Disappointed but not too worried about it, other than that I was clean and did the SP fine. I felt a lot worse for my coach who looked completely devastated, must be a horrible thing to go through. In any case, she owes me a beer now :friday

Speaking of beer, I told said coach today (I was coaching her in the B final) that there was a filthy big pint of Guiness in it if she did well today. That was enough to inspire Livvy onto a new British static record!! Well done Livvy :king

Rhys, the other half of Team Australia cracked out an easy 5 minute static in his first competition ever... there's a big freediving future for this guy.

Kiwi Kathryn is going great guns... huge effort in static today given she had contractions at something like 2 minutes and looked very uncomfortable after 3 minutes and still managed 5:16. her partner Braeden and friend Patty had a bad experience yesterday - they were at the local supermarked when a masked gunman came in and robbed the place. The gunman went out the back and they scampered out the front.... nasty stuff!

No fins in a couple of hours. I thought that this would be the forgotten element of the comp that no-one would train for, but I think I will be very wrong.

Cheers,
Ben

ps.

Pete - there are still a few old style monos around, plenty of WW model 1's and the like. In fact USA's Kevin Busscher did 125m with a pair of the old Esclapez Blacks, the cheapy plastic ones. They were my first spearfishing fins and you can't kill them.

Pim - Stig and Antero were early 7's I think.

Regarding using hi-tech quality monofins - Alena Zabloudilova swims with her old WaterWay Model 1.

cheers benny and well done on the comp pbs congrats Livvy on the NR

Any info on the times of Stig and Antero?????

Congrats to Natalia. But wasnt this a WR? Her Last WR was 7:30, now 8:00 - should be a WR, or not?