Freediving toplists per discipline (best by diver)

Main article: Freediving

Due to scarcity of data, especially for CMAS, certain temporary treshold was applied to results to ensure accuracy. References if not stated are^[1] ^[2]

As of 23.01.2018.

Depth - All time list[edit]

Multiple entries of divers allowed.


sw	salt water
fw	fresh water
	unofficial / practice dive, but with verifiable information

Open

		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
NLT	sw	253.2	Herbert Nitsch	Jun 2012, Santorini	none^[3]
NLT	sw	214	Herbert Nitsch	Jun 2007, Spetses	AIDA
NLT	sw	185	Herbert Nitsch	Jun 2007, Spetses	AIDA^[4]
NLT	sw	183	Herbert Nitsch	Aug 2006, Žirje	AIDA^[5]
NLT	sw	182	Carlos Coste	Sep 2006	^[6]
NLT	sw	172	Herbert Nitsch	Oct 2005, Žirje	AIDA^[7]
NLT	sw	171	Loïc Leferme	Oct 2004	AIDA
NLT	sw	171	Francisco Ferreras	2003	IAFD
NLT	sw	171	Audrey Mestre	2002	^[8]
NLT	sw	170	Francisco Ferreras	2003	IAFD
NLT	sw	166	Audrey Mestre	2002	^[9]
NLT	sw	162	Francisco Ferreras	Jan 2000	IAFD
NLT	sw	162	Loïc Leferme	2002	AIDA
NLT	sw	160	Tanya Streeter	Aug 2002, Turks and Caicos	AIDA
NLT	sw	154	Loïc Leferme	2001	AIDA
NLT	sw	152	Loïc Leferme	2000	AIDA
NLT	sw	150	Umberto Pelizzari	Oct 1999	AIDA
VWT	sw	146	Stavros Kastrinakis	Nov 2015, Kalamata	AIDA
VWT	sw	145	William Winram	Sep 2013, Sharm el Sheikh	AIDA
VWT	sw	142	Herbert Nitsch	Jul 2009, Long Island	AIDA
VWT	sw	140	Carlos Coste	May 2006, Red Sea	AIDA

Women

		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
NLT	sw	171	Audrey Mestre	2002	^[10]
NLT	sw	166	Audrey Mestre	2002	^[11]
NLT	sw	160	Tanya Streeter	Aug 2002, Turks and Caicos	AIDA
NLT	sw	136	Mandy-Rae Cruickshank	Sep 2001, Grand Cayman Island	AIDA^[12]^[13]
NLT	sw	130	Audrey Mestre	2001	AIDA
VWT	sw	130	Nanja van den Broek	Oct 2015, Sharm el-Sheikh	AIDA
VWT	sw	127	Natalia Molchanova	Jun 2012, Sharm	AIDA^[14]

Only official results. One result per diver per discipline, unless exceptions:
1.) When there is record dive with accreditation problems as in the case of NLT.
2.) A number of first results is held by one diver and there is insufficient information on other divers as in the case of NLT under ice.

Depth by discipline[edit]

Note: NLT, VWT/VNF and "under ice" disciplines are record disciplines, which means that divers usually only perform in them when they are more or less sure they can break the world record or their national record, very rarely to record or improve their own personal best, so lists below are more or less record progressions in those disciplines. Skandalopetra used to be one of those disciplines, but nowadays there are some competitions held.


sw	salt water
fw	fresh water

NLT[edit]

No-limits apnea

Men

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	253.2	Herbert Nitsch	Jun 2012, Santorini	none^[15]
=	sw	214	Herbert Nitsch	Jun 2007, Spetses	AIDA
	sw	171	Loïc Leferme	Oct 2004	AIDA
	sw	171	Francisco Ferreras	2003	IAFD
	sw	150	Umberto Pelizzari	Oct 1999	AIDA
	sw

Women

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	160	Tanya Streeter	Aug 2002, Turks and Caicos	AIDA
	sw	136	Mandy-Rae Cruickshank	Sep 2001, Grand Cayman Island	AIDA^[16]^[17]
	sw	130	Audrey Mestre	2001	AIDA
	sw
	sw

VWT and VNF[edit]

Variable weight apnea and Variable weight apnea without fins

Men

	Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
sw	146	Stavros Kastrinakis	Nov 2015, Kalamata	AIDA
sw	145	William Winram	Sep 2013, Sharm el Sheikh	AIDA^[18]
sw	142	Herbert Nitsch	Jul 2009, Long Island	AIDA
sw	140	Carlos Coste	May 2006, Red Sea	AIDA
sw	136	Martin Stepanek	2005	AIDA^[19]
sw	132	Genoni	2002	AIDA^[20]
sw	131	Umberto Pelizzari	2001	AIDA

Women

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	130	Nanja van den Broek	Oct 2015, Sharm el-Sheikh	AIDA
	sw	127	Natalia Molchanova	Jun 2012, Sharm	AIDA^[21]
	sw	122	Tanya Streeter	Jul 2003, Turks and Caicos	AIDA^[22]
	sw
	sw

FIM[edit]

Free immersion apnea

Men

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	124	William Trubridge	Apr 2016, Dean's Blue Hole	AIDA
1	sw	124	Alexey Molchanov	Apr 2017	AIDA
2	sw	122	Miguel Lozano	May 2016	AIDA
3	sw	120	Herbert Nitsch	Apr 2010	AIDA
4	sw	116	Walid Boudhiaf	Apr 2017	AIDA

Women

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	92	Jeanine Grasmeijer	Sep 2016, Kralendijk	AIDA
2	sw	91	Natalia Molchanova	Sep 2013	AIDA
3	sw	88	Alessia Zecchini	Aug 2017	AIDA
4	sw	86	Sofia Gomez	Nov 2016	AIDA
4	sw	86	Jessea Wenjie Lu	Aug 2017	AIDA

CWT[edit]

Constant weight apnea

Men

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	129	Alexey Molchanov	Oct 2016, Isla Espíritu Santo	AIDA
2	sw	126	Guillaume Nery	Sep 2015	AIDA
2	sw	126	David Mullins	Aug 2017	AIDA
3	sw	124	Herbert Nitsch	Apr 2010	AIDA
4	sw	122	Martin Stepanek	May 2009	AIDA

Women

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	104	Alessia Zecchini	Apr 2017, Dean's Blue Hole	AIDA
2	sw	103	Hanako Hirose	Apr 2017, Dean's Blue Hole	AIDA
3	sw	101	Natalia Molchanova	Sep 2011	AIDA
4	sw	100	Alenka Artnik	Aug 2017	AIDA
5	sw

CWT BF[edit]

Constant weight apnea with bifins

Men

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	108	Alexey Molchanov	Oct 2017, Kas	CMAS
2	sw	94	Vincenzo Ferri	Oct 2017, Kas	CMAS
3	sw	92	Arnaud Jerald	Oct 2017, Kas	CMAS
					CMAS
					CMAS

Women

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	85	Nataliia Zharkova	Oct 2017, Kas	CMAS
1	sw	85	Alenka Artnik	Oct 2017, Kas	CMAS
2	sw	84	Sofia Gomez Uribe	Jul 2017, Soufriere bay	CMAS
3	sw	81	Chiara Rossana Obino	Sep 2016, Usica	CMAS
					CMAS

CNF[edit]

Constant weight apnea without fins

Men

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	102	William Trubridge	Jul 2016, Dean's Blue Hole	AIDA
2	sw	96	Alexey Molchanov	May 2014	AIDA
3	sw	90	Morgan Bourchis	Sep 2015	AIDA
4
5

Women

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	72	Sayuri Kinoshita	Apr 2016, Dean's Blue Hole	AIDA
2	sw	71	Natalia Molchanova	May 2015	AIDA
3	sw	67	Ashley Chapman	Nov 2012	AIDA
4	sw	65	Alena Zabloudilova	Nov 2012	AIDA
4	sw	65	Nataliia Zharkova	Oct 2017, Kas	CMAS

SP[edit]

Skandalopetra

Men

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	112	Andreas Güldner	Jun 2014, Red Sea	CMAS
2	sw	107	Herbert Nitsch	Jun 2009, Rhodes	CMAS^[23]
3	sw	100	Umberto Pelizzari	Sep 1998,	CMAS^[24]^[25]
4					CMAS
5					CMAS

Women

#		Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	sw	68.9	Karol Meyer	May 2012, Bonaire	CMAS
=	sw	61.5	Karol Meyer	Jul 2010, Rhodes	CMAS^[26]
2	sw	54	Paola Tagliabue		CMAS^[27]
3					CMAS
4					CMAS

NLT under ice[edit]

Men

#	Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	65	Andreas Pap	Feb 2013, Weissensee	Guinness^[28]
=	62	Andreas Pap	Feb 2012	Guinness^[29]
=	60	Andreas Pap	Jan 2011, Weissensee	Guinness^[30]

Women

#	Depth [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1				Guinness
				Guinness
				Guinness

Distance by discipline[edit]

Often more accurately specified as horizontal distance.
Note: "under ice" disciplines are record disciplines, which means that divers usually only perform in them when they are more or less sure they can break the world record or their national record, very rarely to record or improve their own personal best, so lists below are more or less record progressions in those disciplines.


lc	long course pool
sc	short course pool
ow	open water
sw	salt water
fw	fresh water

DYN[edit]

Dynamic apnea with fins

Men

#		Distance [m]	Diver	Date	Accreditation
1	lc	300	Mateusz Malina	Jun 2016	AIDA
1	lc	300	Giorgos Panagiotakis	Jun 2016	AIDA
1	lc	300	Arthur Guérin-Boëri	Jun 2016	CMAS
2	lc	294.18	Alexis Duvivier	Jul 2015	CMAS
3	lc	289	Oleksandr Bubenchykov	Jun 2016	AIDA
4	lc	288.23	Goran Čolak	Oct 2014	CMAS
5	lc	280	Giannis Kothonidis	Dec 2004	AIDA

Women

#		Distance [m]	Diver	Date	Accreditation
1	lc	250	Alessia Zecchini	Jun 2016	CMAS
2	lc	244.38	Ilaria Bonin	Oct 2014	CMAS
3	lc	237	Natalia Molchanova	Sep 2014	AIDA
4	lc	232	Magdalena Solich-Talanda	Jun 2016	AIDA
5	lc	220	Julia Kozerska	Jun 2017	AIDA

DYN BF[edit]

Dynamic apnea with bifins

Men

#		Distance [m]	Diver	Date	Accreditation
1	lc	246.35	Andrea Vitturini	Jun 2017	CMAS
2	lc	244	Goran Čolak	Jun 2017	CMAS^[31]
3	lc	232.85	Mauro Generali	May 2017	CMAS
4					CMAS
5					CMAS

Women

#		Distance [m]	Diver	Date	Accreditation
1	lc	204.2	Alessia Zecchini	Jun 2016	CMAS
2					CMAS
3					CMAS
4					CMAS
5					CMAS

DNF[edit]

Dynamic apnea without fins

Men

#		Distance [m]	Diver	Date	Accreditation
1	lc	244	Mateusz Malina	Jun 2016	AIDA
2	lc	232	David Mullins	Jul 2009	AIDA
3	lc	225	Goran Čolak	Nov 2013	AIDA
4	lc	213	Tom Sietas	Jul 2008	AIDA
5	lc	207	Frederic Sessa	Oct 2011	AIDA

Women

#		Distance [m]	Diver	Date	Accreditation
1	lc	191	Magdalena Solich-Talanda	Jun 2017	AIDA
2	lc	182	Natalia Molchanova	Jun 2013	AIDA
3	lc	180	Alice Hickson	Jun 2016	AIDA
4	lc sc	175	Katarina Zubčić	Jun 2013 Nov 2013	AIDA CMAS
5

JB[edit]

Jump blue apnea

Men

#		Distance [m]	Diver	Date	Accreditation
1	sw	201.61	Arthur Guérin-Boëri	Oct 2015	CMAS
2	sw	194.27	Alfredo Leonidas Rosado Estrada	Oct 2015	CMAS
3	sw	185	Michele Giurgola	Oct 2012	CMAS
4	sw	185	Xavier Delpit	Oct 2012	CMAS
5	sw	175.66	Michele Fucarino	Sep 2011	CMAS

Women

#		Distance [m]	Diver	Date	Accreditation
1	sw	190.48	Alessia Zecchini	Oct 2015	CMAS
2	sw	171.23	Lidija Lijić	Oct 2017	CMAS^[32]
3	sw	170.57	Christina Rodda	Oct 2017	CMAS^[33]
4	sw	168.69	Ilaria Bonin	Oct 2012	CMAS
5	sw				CMAS

DYN under ice[edit]

Men

#	Distance [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	175	Arthur Guérin-Boëri	Mar 2017, Lake Sonnanen	CMAS
2	152.4	Stig Severinsen	Apr 2013, (East) Greenland	Guinness^[34]
3	150	Peter Colat	Feb 2013, Weissensee	Guinness^[35]
4
5

Women

#	Distance [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	125	Valentina Caffola	Mar 2017, Lago Di Anterselva	CMAS^[36]
2	123	Lidija Lijić	Mar 2017, Weissensee	Guinness^[37]
3	120	Denya Can	Feb 2017, Weissensee	CMAS^[38]
4	110	Şahika Ercümen	Feb 2011	CMAS^[39]
5

DNF under ice[edit]

diving suit allowed

Men

#	Distance [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	84	Nik Linder	Feb 2013, Weissensee	Guinness^[40]^[41]
=	77	Nik Linder	Feb 2013, Weissensee	Guinness^[42]
=	68	Nik Linder	Jan 2010, Mettmenalp	Guinness^[43]
2	50	Jaromir Foukal	2009	Guinness^[44]

Women

#	Distance [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1				Guinness
				Guinness
				Guinness

DNF under ice (no diving suit)[edit]

Men

#	Distance [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	76.2	Stig Severinsen	Apr 2013, Qordlortoq Lake	Guinness^[45]^[46]
	57.5	Wim Hof	Mar 2000, Kolari	Guinness^[47]
				Guinness

Women

#	Distance [m]	Diver	Date and place	Accreditation
1	50	Johanna Nordblad	Mar 2015, Päijänne	Guinness^[48]
				Guinness
				Guinness

Time[edit]

Beta blockers (doping in sport of freediving; prolong every type of apnea by reducing heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac output) can prolong static apnea for up to 20%.^[49]

STA[edit]

See: Static apnea - All time list

STA O2[edit]

See: Static apnea with pure oxygen ¸

References[edit]

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[1] ttps://www.aidainternational.org/Ranking/Rankings

[2] ttp://www.cmas.org/apnoea/records

[3] ttp://www.herbertnitsch.com/herbert/world-records.html

[4] ttp://www.herbertnitsch.com/herbert/world-records.html

[5] ttp://www.herbertnitsch.com/herbert/world-records.html

[6] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Coste

[7] ttp://www.herbertnitsch.com/herbert/world-records.html

[8] "Audrey's last dive". 2002. Retrieved 2009-11-25.

[9] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Mestre

[10] "Audrey's last dive". 2002. Retrieved 2009-11-25.

[11] ttp://www.franceapnee.com/actualites/apnea-legend/audrey-mestre-no-limits/

[12] ttp://www.apneamagazine.com/tanya_record-eng.html

[13] ttps://www.deeperblue.com/profiles-series-mandy-rae-cruickshank/

[14] ttp://www.deepww.com/online/magazine/news/294-nanja-van-den-broek-broke-the-world-record-in-vwt.html

[15] ttp://www.herbertnitsch.com/herbert/world-records.html

[16] ttp://www.apneamagazine.com/tanya_record-eng.html

[17] ttps://www.deeperblue.com/profiles-series-mandy-rae-cruickshank/

[18] ttp://michelbraunstein.com/william-winram-145m-freediving/

[19] ttps://www.kif.unizg.hr/_download/repository/Nastavni_materijal_-_Ronjenje_na_dah%5B1%5D.pdf

[20] ttps://www.kif.unizg.hr/_download/repository/Nastavni_materijal_-_Ronjenje_na_dah%5B1%5D.pdf

[21] ttp://www.deepww.com/online/magazine/news/294-nanja-van-den-broek-broke-the-world-record-in-vwt.html

[22] ttps://www.deeperblue.com/molchanova-breaks-world-record/

[23] ttp://www.herbertnitsch.com/herbert/world-records.html

[24] ttp://www.y-40.com/en/apnea/737-umberto-pelizzari-y-40.html

[25] ttp://www.umbertopelizzari.com/profilo/

[26] ttps://www.deeperblue.com/everything-old-is-new-again-skandalopetra/

[27] ttps://www.deeperblue.com/everything-old-is-new-again-skandalopetra/

[28] ttp://www.bonex-systeme.de/en/2013/02/21/zwei-neue-weltrekorde-unter-eis-fur-nik-linder-aus-freiburg/

[29] ttp://free-diving.de/freediving-rekorde-disziplinen/

[30] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgJa2oevW4

[31] ttps://sportarena.hr/ostalo/colak-nakon-povijesnog-uspjeha-nisam-ovo-ocekivao-imao-sam-premalo-vremena-za-pripremu/

[32] ttp://www.cmas.org/1st-cmas-european-apnea-outdoor-championship-and-open-international-competition

[33] ttp://www.cmas.org/1st-cmas-european-apnea-outdoor-championship-and-open-international-competition

[34] ttps://www.deeperblue.com/stig-severinsen-sets-new-guinness-world-record-swims-500ft-ice/

[35] ttp://www.bonex-systeme.de/en/2013/02/21/zwei-neue-weltrekorde-unter-eis-fur-nik-linder-aus-freiburg/

[36] ttps://www.deeperblue.com/new-cmas-world-record-freediving-ice/

[37] ttp://newsivity.com/news/record-breaking-female-free-diver-swims-under-ice-in-austria

[38] ttp://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/oberkaernten/aktuelles_oberkaernten/5175200/Weissensee_Neuer-Weltrekord-in_Unter-Eis-tauchen

[39] ttps://www.sabah.com.tr/spor/tum-sporlar-diger/2011/11/11/sahika-ercumen-dunya-rekoru-kirdi

[40] ttp://www.bonex-systeme.de/en/2013/02/21/zwei-neue-weltrekorde-unter-eis-fur-nik-linder-aus-freiburg/

[41] ttp://free-diving.de/freediving-rekorde-disziplinen/

[42] ttp://www.bonex-systeme.de/en/2013/02/21/zwei-neue-weltrekorde-unter-eis-fur-nik-linder-aus-freiburg/

[43] ttp://sharkfreediving.com/2010/01/13/under-ice-world-record-68-meters-dynamic-without-fins/

[44] ttp://sharkfreediving.com/2010/01/13/under-ice-world-record-68-meters-dynamic-without-fins/

[45] ttps://www.deeperblue.com/johanna-nordblad-swims-50m-under-ice-for-new-guinness-world-record/

[46] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpeM4FNXRsE

[47] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpeM4FNXRsE

[48] ttp://www.freedive-earth.com/blog/freediving-under-ice-50m-new-world-record

[49] ttp://www.podvodni.hr/ronjenje/ronjenje-na-dah/fiziologija-i-treninzi/1765-granice-maksimalne-izvedbe-u-ronjenju-na-dah

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