The third day of the 30th AIDA World Championship was the Static (STA) competition.
This discipline is when the athletes hold their breaths as long as possible underwater while doing nothing else. This is longest standing AIDA World Record for both men and women; Stephane Mifsud completed 11:35 minutes in 2009 and Natalia Molchanova completed 9:02 minutes in 2013.
On June 15, 2023, Heike Schwerdtner earned herself a gold medal and a new German AIDA National Record with a time of 8:45 minutes, moving her closer to breaking the world record and placing her the second-highest-ranked woman in the discipline.
Japan’s Yuriko Ichihara beat her own AIDA Continental Record with a new time of 7:19 minutes.
Women’s AIDA Continental Records:
• Asia: Yuriko Ichihara (Japan) - 7:19
Women’s AIDA National Records:
• Finland: 7:11 - Iiris Ala-Olla
• Chinese Taipei: 6:27 - Lin Hsin Ju
• Singapore: 6:12 - Patricia Paige Ong
• Germany: 8:45 - Heike Schwerdtner
• Poland: 8:03 - Julia Kozerska
• France: 8:01 - Sylvie Gilson
Women’s Podium:
1. Heike Schwerdtner (Germany) - 8:45
2. Julia Kozerska (Poland) - 8:03
3. Sylvie Gilson (France) - 8:01
Men’s Podium:
1. Florian Dagoury (France) - 10:01
2. Aleksandr Maksimov (International) - 9:10
3. David Spreitz Elings (Sweden) - 8:36
The complete start list & and preliminary results can be found here: bit.ly/3oOYlmA
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About AIDA:
Created in 1992, the International Association for the Development of Apnea (AIDA) is an international freediving federation based in Switzerland. AIDA is dedicated to the development of freediving through both competition and education and is the federation of all freediving nations, bringing together over 50 countries. AIDA has officiated 30 freediving World Championships and more than 300 freediving. world records.