Lazy Seals Freediving Club
New Zealand's only freediving club

Wellington Winter Champs 2009

Fri, 20/03/2009 - 14:39 — admin
Date: 
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 14:20 - Sun, 12/07/2009 - 14:20

The second competition of the New Zealand freediving calendar has now been announced by the Lazy Seals. The 2009 Wellington Winter Champs will take place at the Trust Porirua Aquatic Centre on the 11th & 12th of July. The pool competition will be contested in static breath-hold, dynamic with fins and dynamic without fins. All divers completing dives will recieve a world ranking. A current medical certificate of non-contradiction for freediving is required. Please contact us if you need more details about this.

The competition is open to divers of all abilities, so don't be shy! Competitions can be a great way to improve your diving buy giving you a goal to aim at, plus the chance to learn from top athletes in attendance. It's also a fun event with a good atmosphere.

Further details will be forthcoming in the next couple of weeks.

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Saturday Draw

Fri, 10/07/2009 - 20:01 — chris
Competition: 
Wellington Winter Champs 2009

The draw for the first day is up, with Guy leading off at 10:45 with a static. We have eight male competitors and three females in the performance grade, with four recreational grade divers and three juniors. Final top time is 1:30pm.

Good luck to all!

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Sunday Draw

Sat, 11/07/2009 - 21:06 — chris
Competition: 
Wellington Winter Champs 2009

Once again we have good numbers for Sunday, with most divers opting for dynamics with fins. Michael Cheeseman kicks things off with another static at 10:45am, with the last dive at 1:16pm.

Good luck to all!

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Saturday Results

Sat, 11/07/2009 - 21:21 — chris
Competition: 
Wellington Winter Champs 2009

An astonishing day first up, with five national records and some huge dives. Guy Brew kicked things off with a massive 9:03 static, with Dave Mullins doing a 232m no fins dynamic; 18m more than his current world record! Kathryn McPhee followed up with a 152m dive, pushing her national record out to 1m more than her world record, then Ruth Griffin and Suzy Osler both chimed in with dynamic records for their respective countries; with 164m for Britain and 188m for New Zealand. Phil Clayton also missed out on a British dynamics record when he blacked out at 191m.

Conratulations to all the divers, there were impressive performances across the board. Also a big congrats to our recreational grade divers: Darrell, Joy, Sam and Graham!

See you all tomorrow :)

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Sunday Results

Sun, 12/07/2009 - 23:27 — chris
Competition: 
Wellington Winter Champs 2009

Another big day in competition for the athletes, with more top performances. Michael Cheeseman from Australia opened proceedings with a 6:00 static in his first ever competition, followed by Alisdair Eddie setting a new South African record in dynamic with no fins. Guy Brew increased his dynamic personal best to 226m, while four other competitors did dynamics over 150m. Kathryn McPhee reclaimed her dynamic national record with a 191m dive and Ruth Griffin & Phil Clayton both were unlucky to miss national records for Britain.

Well done to all our competitors, both in the performance & recreational grades!

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