CMAS 2nd European Apnea Championship

[trux]

The second European freediving championship is just in the full run now on Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spanish territory).

I believe today there is the DYN competition. I only have the result of Georgette Raymond who opened the competition this morning with a new French feminine record of 176m.

No word on Goran's performance, or other DYN results. I just found the results of the Jump Blue discipline (also called the Cube) at SPORTALSUB.NET Resultados finales Apnea Jump Blue en el 2do Campeonato Europeo CMAS:

Clasificación Final Femenina
1. Mónica Barbero – Italia – 144 – Nuevo Récord Mundial
2. Lidja Lijic – Croacia – 141,28
3. Karla Fabrio – Croacia – 140
4. Natalia Babich – Rusia – 125
5. Francesca Scolari – Italia – 118.68
6. Shlyahtenko Galina – Rusia – 115,47
- Bilge Cingigiray – Turquía – Blackout
- Carolina González – España – Blackout

Clasificación Final Masculina
1. Alfredo Roen – España – 171,45 – Nuevo Récord Mundial
2. Michele Fucarino – Italia – 170,30
3. Andrea Viturini – Italia – 162,40
4. Michele Tomasi – Italia – 157,89
5. Veljano Zanki – Croacia – 148,25
6. Michele Giurgiola – Italia – 125,65
7. Davor Franicevic – Croacia – 103,90
- Miguel Lozano – España – Blackout

 

[trux]

OK, I have the results if the DYN qualification (finals to follow later):

EDIT: have to love the precision of the measurment - 1 milimter! Simply amazing! rofl

 

[osusim]

EDIT: have to love the precision of the measurment - 1 milimter! Simply amazing! rofl

Just general lack of education. Three years of church school quite enough to write CMAS international rules :t

 

[Mullins]

Two competitors at exactly 200.080??

 

[trux]

Two competitors at exactly 200.080??

I guess the pool is two centimeters longer than 50m, and both of them completed the 4th length (assuming it is a 50m pool)

EDIT: more amazing is the difference of 8mm between Fucarino and Brcic!

 

[Mullins]

Don't they drop tokens to mark the distance? I suppose they could have dropped them right against the wall. But surely the approach would be to touch the wall with one hand while holding the other hand back behind you to drop the marker further down the pool.

 

[trux]

Yes, they drop the mark, but I believe that when they exit at the wall, the wall counts, not the mark.

 

[Mullins]

So would it be possible to swim 50.500m in a 50m pool? What would you have to do in order for the .5m to be recognised? Stop touching the wall?

 

[trux]

Well, I do not know exactly. I saw it only once in Aarhus and did not really seek to understand it. The French CMAS (FFESSM) uses rules almost identical to AIDA, so I do not know the details of the interntaional CMAS rules. Perhaps you have to change the direction, that the new lap starts counting. I am sure Goran will explain it later.

 

[spaghetti]

Only very little bits of second hand "news".

Italy's Fucarino did 220 in the dynamics final and won Silver. The winner is "one of Croatians" (quoting the only comment I've found in italian forums), probably Goran, no way to know how long he swam so far.

This lack of communications from Cmas is unbelievable. Word is they had no budget for a press office...

 

[Goran Colak]

Ill explane it when I get home to Croatia, this competition is just one big joke... not that I am surprised at all...

Ps. I did not do anything long, just 230m, Fucarino 226 and Brcic 219. We started one after another, me being last.

 

[BennyB]

Christophe Bruel - 10 point penalty for "Marker Lost".

How does one lose a marker in a pool - speedo mishap?

 

[mortenkv]

Ill explane it when I get home to Croatia, this competition is just one big joke... not that I am surprised at all...

Yes, please give us an report. In Denmark we are discussing participations in CMAS events like this one. We actually decided to support a team, but no one voluteered to go there... So Im very eager to hear your experience - beeing an experienced competitor with lots of competitions in the recent years.

Best,
Morten

 

[trux]

Morten, just remember that the competitors who want to participate at a CMAS championship must avoid DYN at AIDA competitions! So they need to do like Goran - only DNF and STA under AIDA, and DYN only at CMAS.

 

[mortenkv]

I thought that depended on the national CMAS? I would be surprised if that was a problem in DK. But, thanks for bringing my attention to this aspect as well.
Morten

 

[trux]

No, it is exactly the opposite case - I actually know of no national CMAS that would forbid it. Perhpas FIPSAS? Defnitely not the case here in France - we do even have dual FFESSM(CMAS)/AIDA competitions here, and can live well together. Most freedving clubs are associated with both federations. Two French divers nominated by the French national CMAS were disqualified at a CMAS WC because of this reason, and the FFESSM even filed a legal suit against the international CMAS. After that they wanted to make a provocation by sending another top athlete (whom they let doing an AIDA competition) to the CMAS WC, but chickened out and retracted him just the day of the departure. However, it will take many years before the legal process progresses, and it is doubtful whether it brings any result.

 

[Goran Colak]

Ok well... like this, I sow you all wondering about markers lool... well yeap it's well... at least strange thing, but ok I don't mind that much about caring that marker (250g) with me on a dive. You have to let go of him before you surface and they mesure distance to that point, via laser. The 200,08m was becouse the pool had some strange edge on the bottom that is under angle so everything slide trough that angle 8cm from the wall. That will have to be exactly 200m ofcourse and that is in the rules but on a CMAS competition obviously you dont have to follow the rules... There was at least 5 things on this competition completely against there rules and judges just ignore it. There was at least 5 completely wrong decisions for competitors, that was completely against the rules, and the judges did know that and they ignore it and make the rules like they want it to be... There was some hudge organization problems, like no training at the pool at all before competition, wrong pool not by the rules and more.. but ok... But the good thing was safety divers... that was realy extraordinary and brilliant!

 

[Goran Colak]

All results of competition, man + women

SPORTALSUB.NET Resultados finales Apnea Dinámica en el 2do Campeonato Europeo CMAS