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British freediver rewrites record book
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Briton Sara Campbell has stunned the world of freediving by setting three world records at the Triple Depth competition in Dahab, Egypt.
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Campbell, who only started freediving earlier this year, set new women's world record marks in each of the competition's three athletically demanding disciplines - Constant Weight, Constant Weight Without Fins, and Free Immersion.
In Constant Weight, the diver descends and ascends by fin power, carrying whatever weight is chosen throughout. Campbell reached 90m to beat, by 2m, the record of Canadian Mandy-Rae Cruickshank.
In Constant Weight Without Fins, where descent and ascent are made by swimming, Campbell went to 56m. This exceeded by 1m the record of Natalia Molchanova, of Russia.
In Free Immersion, in which the diver descends and ascends by pulling along the dive line, Campbell reached 81m, again beating a Molchanova record by just a metre.
Campbell, who is based in Dahab and mixes work as a PR consultant and yoga instructor, took up the sport only nine months ago, after realising that she possessed a very high natural breath-hold capacity.
Training with Freedive Dahab school, which hosts the Triple Depth event, Campbell's progress has been amazingly rapid. Only six months ago, for instance, she was regarded as doing well in reaching 30m for a British record.
Campbell has become the first British freediver to set a world record; the first freediver to set a world record within a year of taking up the sport; and the first freediver to set three world records within the space of a 48-hour competition.
The dives by Campbell and other men and women competing at Triple Depth were ratified by governing body AIDA, the judges of which were present throughout the event.
* Marcus Greatwood has set a new British national men's record of 61m in Free Immersion, beating the previous record of Mark Harris by 1m. |
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