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2. Alessia Zecchini - Wikipedia

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   Alessia Zecchini (born 30 June 1992) is an Italian freediver who has set world and Italian records in freediving. [1] [2] At the age of 13, Zecchini completed her first federal apnea course in A.s.d. "Apnea Blu Mare". In 2009 she changed clubs and became an athlete of Dive Free Roma and Nuoto Belle Arti.

3. Dottie Frazier - Wikipedia

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   Frazier began teaching freediving in the 1940s. [3] [7] During World War II she worked for Douglas Aircraft Company. [6] In 1955, Frazier became a certified scuba instructor and was the first woman in the United States to do so. [8] [9] She also created some of the first wetsuit patterns for women. [10]

4. Audrey Mestre - Wikipedia

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   There, she took up serious free-diving and with Ferreras as her instructor was soon reaching record depths. In 1999 the two diving aficionados married and the following year, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Audrey Mestre broke the female world record by free diving to a depth of 125 meters (410 ft) on a single breath of air. A year later she ...

5. Freediving - Wikipedia

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   Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.

6. Mehgan Heaney-Grier - Wikipedia

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   The following year she beat her own record with a dive to 165 feet (50 meters), [4] [5] When she set her second US record, the women's world record for free diving was 204.5 feet (62.3 meters). [3] In 1998 Heaney-Grier captained the first United States Freediving Team to compete in the World Cup Freediving Championships held in Sardinia, Italy. [6]

7. Johanna Nordblad - Wikipedia

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   In 2004, she broke the female record in freediving with fins (dynamic), swimming 158 metres in 6m 39s. Nordblad also was the Finnish team captain and coach for the men’s national freediving team, preparing them for the 2014 World cup in Italy. Her current record in dynamic freediving is 192 m from the 2013 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.