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Dynamic Without Fins Finals Videos

July 20, 2007 in Video, WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

Dynamic without fins was probably the most exciting discipline to watch in this competition. You can read back my thoughts about this here. The organization behind the Maribor World Championships are working on a DVD with all kinds of footage, but they already released two clips of the dynamic without fins finals.

First the men. Remember the results:
1st – Stig Severinsen (DEN) 186 meters
2nd – Alexey Molchanov (RUS) 157 meters
3rd – Naozuki Tominaga (JPN)157 meters
(all national records and a world record)

http://www.shark-eye.com/flv/2007-maribor/DNFfinalsAM.flv

And here the women.
1st – Natalia Molchanova (RUS) 149 meters
2nd – Alena Zabloudilova (CZ) 133 meters
3rd – Karla Fabrio (CRO) 125 meters
(all national records and a world record)

http://www.shark-eye.com/flv/2007-maribor/DNFfinalsAW.flv

Dynamic With Fins Finals Video

July 10, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

Thanks to BennyB for filming and putting online the two dynamic with fins finals video’s. First let start the men and then the women. Enjoy!

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Official Final Press Release WC

July 9, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

DSCF1875.jpgAIDA World Championships in pool freediving hosted by H2O team and the town of Maribor in Slovenia.This World championship in the pool disciplines was dominated by the Danish claiming 9 places in the A-finals. After them Russia Sweden and Check republic with 6, 5 and 4 places.

Every second year the world federation AIDA hosts a world champion in the following pool disciplines: with and without fins as far as possible on one breath, and the last discipline is called static and is pure breath holding without moving.

365 performances with athletes from 28 countries were made during four days in Maribor. Old champions held on to their medals, new stars emerged and veterans were beaten (see results below). As expected the world record holder Natalia Molchanova from Russia dominated among the women claiming all three gold medals.

Many new talented women fought for the second place in the prestigious swimming with fins discipline, leaving young Elisabeth Kristoffersen from Norway in second place.

DSCF2474.jpgWith old champion Tom Sietas not present Danish Stig Severinsen returned from long PhD studies and defended his DNF gold from two years back. Also in the fins discipline Stig claimed the gold – Alexey Molchanov from Russia giving him a battle all the way to the end.

With Russian Natalia Molchanova so dominating, the drama in the no fins discipline was around the silvermedal where Alena Zabloudilova (CZ) beat Karla Fabrio (CRO).

The mens breathhold saw all new and surprised faces as old stars bailed out early. Among the women Lotta Ericson set new personal best and took a silver in breathholding, in a discipline that was generally weak for the women this championship.

The championship was among the athletes considered as one of the most well organized thanks to the ambitions of Sandi Bitenc and his H2O team. One appreciated detail was the over and underwater video shown on screens and the live commentating.

Facts on freediving.

The freediving federation AIDA has held three individual championships. Maribor was the second pool championship.

There are three depth disciplines and three pool disciplines. In the pool: as far as possible on one breath, with or without fins. The last discipline is called static and is pure breath holding without moving.
DYN (dynamic) with fins,
DNF (dynamic no fins),
STA (Static) non moving breath holding.

Facts from the Maribor championship:
WINNERS

DSCF2284.jpgDynamic men
1st – Stig Severinsen (DEN) 216 meters
2nd – Alexey Molchanov (RUS) 213 meters
3rd – William Winram (CAN) 203 meters
(the last two national records)

Dynamic women
1st – Natalia Molchanva (RUS) 205 meters
2nd – Elisabeth Kristoffersen (NOR) 174 meters
3rd- Karla Rabrio (CRO) 169 meters
(all national records and a world record)

Static men
1st – Nicolas Guerry (SUI) 7.34
2nd – Tomek Bryl (PL) 7.15
3rd – Peter Boivie (SWE) 7.10
(all new national records)

DSCF2400.jpgStatic women
1st – Natalia Molchanova (RUS) 8.00
2nd – Lotta Ericson (SWE) 6.49
3rd – Jessica Wilson (USA) 6.00
(all national records and a world record)

1st – Stig Severinsen (DEN) 186 meters
2nd – Alexey Molchanov (RUS) 157 meters
3rd – Naozuki Tominaga (JPN)157 meters
(all national records and a world record)

Dynamic no fins women
1st – Natalia Molchanova (RUS) 149 meters
2nd – Alena Zabloudilova (CZ) 133 meters
3rd – Karla Fabrio (CRO) 125 meters
(all national records and a world record)

DSCF2363.jpgTop Ten Nationals:
Denmark 81p
Russia 80p
Sweden 41p
Croatia 39p
Czech Reublic 34p
Japan 32p
Switzerland 24p
Slovenia 21p
Finland 20p
Norway 19p

Data from the performances

Since the last Pool championship in Renens (Switzerland 2005) the athletes performances have improved. To claim one of the eight places in the final the demands have increased as follows:

DSCF2376.jpgSTA MEN: 6.45 to 7 min sharp
STA WOMEN: 5.24 remaining on the same level

DYN MEN: 153 to 178 meters
DYN WOMEN: 124 to 153 meters

DNF MEN: 114 to 134 meters
DNF WOMEN: 87 to 110 meters

The number of failed performances since the last championship has increased, specially among the men. In Renens 2005 11% was (DQ) disqualifications. Usually for failing control (surface protocol) after the dive, in some cases lack of motor control and short blackouts (No injuries has ever happened so far in competitive freediving). In Maribor 18% of all qualification dives led to disqualification.

Since the last championships the rules have evolved and less judge rulings are under discussion. In the Maribor championships 365 performances only led to three serious protests but only two changed initial ruling.

DNF Finals And A Big Crazy Party

July 8, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

IMG_9198.jpgWow, what a 24 hours. Amazing that I’m not falling over yet. I’m writing this at Vienna airport and we just a terrorist alert and half of the terminal was closed down. So that was enough action for one day I guess. Yesterday in the afternoon it was time for the final final, dynamic without fins. And what a final it turned out to be.

First to go were again the B final women. Biggest surprise with that was Barbara Visintin who did an excellent 120 meters. What a high standard to set. But there were also 3 disqualification in this final. All girls cleared 100 meters. Then the men did also an excellent without any disqualifications which is always good. Winner there was Christian Maldame with 150 meters, which is also a new national record.

IMG_9185.jpgAnd then there were the A finals. From 8 final woman, 7 got a white card. of these 7 there were 6 national records and 1 world record. Just to give you an understanding of the high level they were at. I had my eye again on Alena Zabloudilova who had a blackout at 196 meters with fins, but for sure looked strong enough to come closest to Natalia. Natalia did once again a world record a came up at 149 meters so easy and fresh, it was almost scary to see this routine drilled woman doing her thing. There were just no signs of any exhaustion or anything. Alena cam close but it was not enough, 133 meters. Third place was one by Karla Fabrio because of her higher announced performance. She did 125 meters and announced 112. Johanna Nordblad also did 125 but announced 75. Too bad for Johanna.

IMG_9194.jpgThe men finals was very interesting. William Winram got disqualified because he went under with his head due to a pretty big LMC. Five performances over 150 meters is just amazing. 2nd and 3rd place was equal distance, but Alexey announced 125 meters and did 157 meters. Naoyuki did also 157 meters but only announced 105 meters. Stig won by a big margin and with a world record of 186 meters. His performance was protested and first he lost his world record and got 10 points penalty, which still would give him first place. Of course Stig also protested the protest and he won this one and he got his world record and full points back.

IMG_9207.jpgAfter this it was doping test time. It took actually quite a while before all freedivers who need to do a doping test where ready to do their thing. I think I saw around 20 bottles of water lying around the doping test room, just drinking to do a piss. Fun stuff, especially because in my opinion current doping test is just a show and 95% of the stuff that’s being tested on is not interesting for freediving and the most important doping for freediving is not being tested with this test because it’s to expensive and needs another way of testing. Anyway, that’s a completely different story.

After this my official work was finally done, and for the first time in all the days there I took a dive in the pool and I took a bottle of beer with me in the pool so that Marcello and I could replay a famous scene from the Big Blue. It was just a start from what was about to happen.

IMG_9240.jpgQuick change at the dorms and then back to the Lent Festival where we had the price ceremony. It started raining pretty fast so we made it a fast ceremony. The sponsors had some nice gifts to give away and I think Natalia Molchanova was pretty happy with the multiple vacuum cleaners she got from sponsor Miele. ;)

After this we traveled with two buses to the official party which was located at the ski slopes of maribor. Great view over there. Everybody got celebrated once again, including judges, staff, etc and we all enjoyed dinner and some drinks. Some people enjoyed a lot of drinks very fast, and already after 1 hour of being there we saw the first Japanese and Swedish getting a blackout and falling to the ground. Good thing I brought my red card with me.

IMG_9303.jpgAt around 1:15 am it was to go to the after party in the center. It’s just funny how you can see some serious athletes who have been training for months finally relaxing and taking (too many) beers. It was a wild party to see the least and everybody was having great fun. I got back at the dorms at around 8 in the morning and got 2 hours of sleep before I had to clean up my room and get the taxi ride of 3 hours back to Vienna airport.

In the next few days I will let it all sink in and come back with one final article of probably the best competition I have ever been too, and I visited quite a lot. If I weren’t a judge I would for sure put some more energy in keeping everybody up to date, as well as providing more statistical data, photos and videos. Some more final thoughts later. Now it’s time to get a good dinner at the airport and prepare for the flight back. It was a good one!

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DNF Qualifications And A Good Night Out

July 7, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

IMG_9146.jpgYesterday evening was the start for the dynamic without fins discipline. With the men we had 58 competitors of which 17 were disqualified! That’s a lot! Some big names got disqualified and it was clear that some people where just getting really tired. It took 132 meters to enter the finals, done by Alexey Molchanov, which was also a new national record. I predicted 135 meters, so I was pretty close by.

IMG_9137.jpgWith the women we had 31 competitors and 6 disqualifications. Also once again some pretty big names with that. I remember when I coached Renate de Bruyn to her world record dive of 100 meters back in 2003. Now 4 years later we have 15 (!) women clearing 100 meters or more. Big development over here.To enter the A final you had to do 110 meters. Big numbers for sure. I was way off with my predicted 91 meters! Both A and B finals should be very exciting to watch!

IMG_9301.jpgThat evening Judges Marcello, Kimmo and myself invited organizer Sandi and his girlfriend Mihela to dinner. They were still very busy working at the pool and I think around 23:00 they were waiting for us at the lent festival. First we went to a nice rock concert for about 30 minutes, and it was a good thing we brought Mihela, she’s like the VIP who has keys of every place! We got in for free and enjoyed the music. After that it was time to eat something local. We let Sandi and Mihela order and we had an excellent time and dinner once again. At around 1:30 we were done dining and Sandi would take us around Maribor to experience the night life. There were some ”interesting” clubs over there, that really are worth visiting! I think Sandi dropped us of around 5:30 in the morning and he had a good 2 hours of sleep before returning to the pool! Thanks Sandi for the great tour around Maribor!

I had a good sleep and I’m just awake getting up for lunch. Then it’s already time for the dynamic without fins finals and the big party afterwards. So you will here from me tomorrow, but for sure not early in the morning! ;)

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Dynamic & Static Finals And A Festival

July 6, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

DSCF2309.jpgWhat an excellent 24 hours. Yesterday evening it was time for the first final of the competition, dynamic with fins. First was the women B final, and because this was the first time there would be 8 freedivers performing at the same time, you could really notice the tension with the organizers, judges and safety. But it went pretty fine, no problems and disqualifications in the first final. In total three national records in this heat for Andrea Zetochova with 139 meters, Claudia Rollero with the same distance and Barbara Jeschke with 134 meters. By the way, Claudia Rollero is such a slow dynamic swimmers, wow. It took her 3:29 for 139 meters!

Second heat was the B finals for the men which also had Carlos Coste competing for the A final because of the countdown problem the day before. Carlos put down a strong 187 meters and looked really strong.

DSCF2438.jpgNext was the first A final with the woman with very strong performances and a world record. Jamia Slovecikova did 164 meters and gets 5th place! That’s how high the performances are. 3rd and 4th place are just 1 meter from each other and in the end Karla Fabrio takes 3rd with a 169 meters and just swims one meter more then Eva Tommerup Johnsen. 2nd place is for 19 year old talent Elisabeth Kristoffersen with 174 meters and she looks very strong, and much more to be expected in the future. And how could it be any different, Russian powerhouse Natalia Molchanova takes her first world champion title and new world record with a distance of 205 meters and comes up as fresh as she has done 100 meters.

The most missed performance was done by Alena Zabloudilova with a distance of 196 meters. I was judging here and she looked very strong, almost nobody saw her performance because she was on completly the other side of the pool. Too bad she had a blackout after surfacing. You saw her getting into problems at 190 meters. If she had come up at 180 she would have taken third place for sure. It took her 2:44 min to swim that distance.

DSCF2446.jpgSo, now it was time for the A final for the men. For sure this would be an excellent heat. Carlos already set 187 meters during another heat that would count for the A final. Stig started very quick and he was already up front. At 150 meters he saw he was around 20 meters ahead of his main rival Alexey Molchanov. At 170 meters he was clearly slowing down so that he could see what Alexey was up to. Both athletes turned at the same time at 200 meters and Stig had an excellent look at how Alexey was doing. Alexey came up ath 213 and Stig did 3 meters more, 216 meters, to secure his world champion title again. He was prepared to swim a new world record to get this, he put down a marker at 227 meters!

DSCF2451.jpgAt first it looked as if Henning Larsen got third place with 206 meters but there was a protest from the William Winram camp. William did 203 meters and was now in fourth place, but his supporters clearly saw that Henning had gone under the surface and after a successful protest Henning got disqualified and William took third place. In the end Carlos got 4th place in this final. You can see all final results over here.

After the exciting finals it was time to have some dinner and relax. We found a good italian place and for 8 euros I got a few beers and pizza I couldn’t finish. Afterwards a small stroll around the excellent Lent Festival which was really fun to walk around. Good atmosphere, and good to relax and have some fun and to prepare for the next morning finals.

So, in the morning it was time again for a great final line up. Herbert and Natalia were for sure the favorites to win this one. Especially because Herbert was doing 8 minutes in training all the time.

IMG_9106.jpgB finals with women saw 2 new national records by Liv Philip (5:32) and Mojca Studen (5:21). With the men it was too bad too see another problem with Carlos Coste. They made a 5 minute mistake for the official top and where still completely on the other side of the pool 5 minutes before his official top. He arrived just 30 seconds before start and had to bail out at 3:36. It’s just bad to see such an high level athlete having to bail out because of such a mistake.

DSCF2466.jpgThe A finals with the women where exciting to watch. It soon became clear it was between Lotta Ericson and Natalia Molchanova. Natalia is just a highly skilled tactical player, never doing anything more then what is necessary in the series and playing with the other competitors. At 5:30 Natalia put her feet already down and played as if she was in problems. Lotta right besides her must have thought she had a chance, and put down a new national record of 6:49 min. After Lotta came up Natalia relaxed again and did a new world record of 8 minutes, which would even beat the mens final time. She came out so fresh, it was just amazing to watch. 4.5 seconds to complete the surface protocol. Amazing!

IMG_9114.jpgThen the men came to play. Joki Antero did get disqualified because his coach touched him when he came out. The protest was not successful, but at least he had seen what was wrong. Stig couldn’t make it has well and DQ’d himself by not doing the SP. Herbert already had a difficult time with some hard contractions but after 7:03 it was also over for him. Surprising winner was Nicolas Guerry from Switzerland with a time of 7:34. I think the bookmakers would have given you a good number if you bet on him. I think he was very happy, especially after the very bad blackout he had during dynamic. See the complete static final results here.

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Fishy Dinner & Static Qualifications

July 5, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

So right after my fast post of yesterday it was time to catch dinner! Judge Kimmo and I went to a fish restaurant he already went to a few days back. Well, I have to say, I’m a real lover for some good fish food but the fish food we ordered together with the salad en the local maribor wine was one of the best meals I had! It just tasted so good, amazing stuff. So afterwards when we asked for the check I was prepared to pay a good amount of money for this meal, but the check only showed 42 euro! That included the excellent bottle of wine of only 3,95 euro. Crazy stuff going on in Maribor.

sankrock.jpgSomewhat after midnight we walked back to the dorms where everyone was staying and we walked by the lent festival concert stage. We thought we would grab a beer and stay for 5 min, but 1,5 hours later we went on going. The rock group Sank Rock played such an excellent music, it was just great. Kimmo even bought 2 cd’s. Thanks for that, Kimmo! Great food, wine and music. What else do you want? Oh yeah, good freediving performances.

IMG_9072.jpgThe next morning it was time for the static qualifications. I found myself a good bench to sit and judge and the games could start again. With the men there were 62 performances and 6 were disqualified. The most remarkable disqualification came from Timo Kinnunen when during contractions his diarrhea came back and he couldn’t hold anymore. Thank god for good tight wetsuits! Of course coming up with his pants full he didn’t really care anymore for a good surface protocol. I was told that the local men’s shower looked like a warzone after Timo got undressed. Too much details.

The 8th time to enter the A finals was 6:59 done by Joki Antero, and I was pretty close with my predicted 7:00 minutes for this. Of the 8 names I mentioned only 4 of them really got in the A finals. All in all still an excellent list of people that should give an interesting fight during the finals. Full men static qualification list here.

IMG_9012.jpgThe 28 women competing in static so only one disqualification by Junko Kitahama. The time to enter the A final was done by Kathryn McPhee from New Zealand with a time of 5:22 min. I expected 5:45, so that was a little bit lower then expected. I got 6 of the 8 final names correct with this one, so that was a little bit better. The women result list can be found here.

In a few hours I go back to the pool to judge the first final in dynamic with fins. This will be very interesting, this together with the static final tomorrow morning will make sure that I can write another nice posts about what’s going on.

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Dynamic Qualifications & Other Good Stuff

July 4, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

dynq2.jpgFirst competition day was very interesting, to say the least. Judging went okay and for me the most disturbing part was the dynamic of Carlos. I was already very happy to see Carlos Coste back in the water but at the countdown something went wrong. It went from 20, 10, 5 and then it stopped… So Carlos was already packing and waiting for official top, he started half, then stopped, looked, breath out and one time in again and still decided to go. Around 18 seconds after official top. He managed to do a very good 178 meters which looked fairly easy to him. After everybody had done their performance it turned out Carlos was in place 9, so just missing out on the A finals. He did a protest and the only fair solution we could come up with was to let Carlos start between the B and A final as a separate A final athlete. This way he still has a good shot a taking a medal. He looks very strong in the water. Too bad to see that he’s not completely recovered yet with his walking.

dynq3.jpgThere was a disturbing high number of very bad blackout, lmc’s and everything. Of the 60 men starting in this discipline, 25% of them got disqualified! With the 33 women, there were only 3 disqualified, so it seems the women are doing something right here. All in all it’s really clear that the top performers are really training to the edge and to cope with lmc’s. At least the audience has fun looking at it… What do you think about this development

dynq1.jpgThere is another part where the woman are really doing better then the men. The distance for them to get in the final is an incredible 150 meters! 25 meters more then predicted by me. The men field was also very strong, you had to swim 178 meters to get in the final. I’ll think we see probably 4 people turning at 200 meters tomorrow in the finals. Look at the complete results here and the final dynamic starting list here.

Much more to tell, but so little time. We have to find a restaurant and get some food. It’s getting late already. Today not much photo’s, really concentrating on my judge work. Tomorrow more stuff!

WC Training & Opening Ceremony

July 3, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

As I don’t have the energy left to type a lot, I’ll just keep you updated on this first day with some pictures and a small video. Enjoy! You can take a look here on what will happen tomorrow during the dynamic qualifications. Probably updated real time.

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Getting To Maribor

July 2, 2007 in WC 2007 Pool by Jorg Jansen

Just a small update from Paris. Yesterday evening I left my house to catch the train to Amsterdam Airport, and after a nice night without any sleep I was ready to get my plain at 6:50 in the morning. At 6:30 some woman yelled over the intercom that our flight was canceled because of the terrorist thread in London yesterday. The plane that should be in Amsterdam didn’t come the day before, so no flight for us.

After waiting for an hour at the transfer desk I got to hear that I got a new flight from Amsterdam to Paris and from Paris to Vienna. So instead of arriving in Vienna at 8:50 in the morning I will arrive there at 14:35. After getting my suitcase and taxi ride to Maribor it will be at least 18:00 hours. So that’s almost 24 hour of traveling to get to Maribor. Next time I will take the car and drive myself! ;)

Anyway, will be nice to see some friends over there again. And I will probably so exhausted that I don’t update the site tonight anymore. So sorry… ;) More Tomorrow!