Natalia Molchanova

Natalia Molchanova, Danmark, Aarhus, 5th Individual freediving World Championship, 2009

Natalia Molchanova (Russian: Молчанова Наталья Вадимовна), born 8 May 1962, Ufa, Russia is a Russian champion Freediver and is the current President of the Russian Freedive Federation.

Natalia is the world's most successful female freediver ever, with a total of 32 world records. She has, so far, 14 individual gold medals and two team gold medals from the Freediving World Championships. At the World Championships in Maribor, Slovenia, in 2007, Natalia's winning time in the static discipline was better than the winning male gold medal. The 25th of September, 2009, she became the first woman ever to make and pass 100 meters in Constant Weight, this with a dive to 101 meters. Natalia is also the only female who has made a constant dive through the arch in the Blue Hole, in Dahab, Egypt. In 2009 Molchanova also became the first freediver in the world, including men, to deliver three results, in three different categories (depth, length and time) with over 100 points in each according to the international point scoring systems that are recognised by AIDA International. During 2009, Natalia set five new world records and took all five gold medals at the two individual AIDA World Championships.

Official World Records by Natalia Molchanova^{[citation needed]}

Apnea	Record	Date	Location
FIM	88 m	24 Sep 2011	Kalamata (Greece)
CWT	101 m	22 Sep 2011	Kalamata (Greece)
CWT	100 m	16 April 2011	Blue Hole (Bahamas)
VWT	125 m	16 June 2010	Kalamata (Greece)
DYN	225 m	25 April 2010	Moscow (Russia)
CNF	62 m	03 Dec 2009	Blue Hole (Bahamas)
FIM	90 m*	27 Sep 2009	Sharm (Egypt)
CWT	101 m*	25 Sep 2009	Sharm (Egypt)
STA	8 min 23 sec	21 August 2009	Aarhus (Denmark)
DNF	160 m	20 August 2009	Aarhus (Denmark)
DYN	214 m	5 October 2008	Lignano (Italy)
FIM	85 m	27 July 2008	Crete (Greece)
CWT	95 m	25 July 2008	Crete (Greece)
CNF	60 m	12 June 2008	Dahab (Egypt)
FIM	82 m	10 June 2008	Dahab (Egypt)
DNF	149 m	7 July 2007	Maribor (Slovenia))
STA	8 min	6 July 2007	Maribor (Slovenia)
DYN	205 m	5 July 2007	Maribor (Slovenia)
FIM	80 m	3 June 2006	Dahab (Egypt)
DYN	200 m	23 April 2006	Moscow (Russia)
STA	7 min 30 sec	22 April 2006	Moscow (Russia)
DNF	131 m	20 December 2005	Tokyo (Japan)
CNF	55 m	7 November 2005	Dahab (Egypt)
FIM	78 m	5 November 2005	Dahab (Egypt)
CWT	86 m	3 September 2005	Villefranche (France)
DNF	124 m	25 August 2005	Renens (Switzerland)
STA	7 min 16 sec	25 August 2005	Renens (Switzerland)
DYN	178 m	25 August 2005	Renens (Switzerland)
DYN	172 m	24 April 2005	Moscow (Russia)
DNF	108 m	23 April 2005	Moscow (Russia)
DYN	155 m	25 April 2004	Moscow (Russia)
DYN	150 m	2 May 2003	Limassol (Cyprus)

The two records, 101m and 90m from 2009 has been withdrawn by the federation 8 months after they been set. This because of the introduction of a new rule which was then used retrospectively.

External links

• Molchanova's personal web site
• Current Freediving World Records
• Profile at Apnea mania
• Molchanova's Coach

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