hi!
sorry for the delay, but yesterday it's been a very very busy day. and today too...and i have all results on excel and the copy and paste doesn't work very well, so i'm gonna write a short version!
final results for men:
1st willian winram, canada, total points 181 (fim 74, cw 47, cnf 60)
2nd herbert nitsch, austria, total points 160 (fim 0, cw 90, cnf 70)
2nd Patrik Shnorf, Switzerland, total points 160 (fim65, cw 55, cnf40)
final results for women:
1st linda paganelli, italy, total points 168 (fim 60, cw 73, cnf 35)
2nd lotta ericson, sweden, total points 166 (fim 65, cw 71, cnf 30)
3rd natalia molchanova, russia, total points 153 (fim 80, cw 73, cnf 0)
as you can see natalia had 0 points in unassisted, because she had a bo. she announced 60, which was going to be the new world record if successful, but at around 10 mt on the ascent she started losing air and soon after she stopped moving. she was brought up and given oxigen and woke up soon after looking for her fluid goggles, and then she realized there were people around her holding her, and after few seconds she says "aha", as to say "it took a while but now i realize i had a black out!".
at least now we know she's human, and i promise i'll never call her "war machine" anymore.
soon after her alex did his dive to the same depth and it was a successful dive (and very beautiful to watch), so now he must be happy because he's diving deeper than his mum!
herbert did another of his stunts: coming back from a 70 mt unassisted dive, he took off his goggles and noseclip few mt underwater, came up, made a smile like he's coming back from a warm up,(and did the sp in time!).
william did very well too, unfortunately his constant was ruined from his ear, but the next day he could do 60 unassisted, which was another very nice and easy dive. so he ended up first, and he won a carbon monofin from specialfin!
i won a carbon fin too, and i'm quite happy about it! i didn't expect to win, what i wanted was only a nice cw dive, which i had, and i did the other 2 disciplines just because i had good chances to get in the first 3 and get a nice prize! but now i feel very guilty for having been so lazy and not having done a bit more...i feel especially very ashamed for having announced 35 in cnf!!!
a lot of national records were broken also in cnf:
herber nitsch, austria, 70 (respect!)
william winram, canada, 60
alex molchanov, russia, 60
bill stromberg, sweden, 60
leo yasumasa muraoka, 47
stavros kastrinakis, greece, 42
patrick shnorf, switzerland, 40
hellen garner, south africa, 35
liv philip, uk, 27
rosa de sousa, portugal, 21
tomorrow i'll post some pics from the comp, and we'll put all results on the webpage as soon as possible!
i'd like to thank specialfin for having sponsored us with beautiful prizes, and elios, who offered 2 custom made suits for the second winners, and nice training bags for the 3rd.
if anybody know somebody willing to sponsor the next "triple depth" competition with some real money, please let me know!!!!
cheers
linda
