Mateusz Malina
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Mateusz Malina is a Polish world champion and world record holding freediver.
Matuesz, known as Matt among his freediving friends,[1] has set world records a total of eleven times. He is only the second male freediver to hold absolute world records in both depth and distance disciplines. Herbert Nitsch was the first male freediver to accomplish this.[2] Natalia Molchanova holds this distinguishment among female freedivers. He is one of three people that have ever won Vertical Blue competition, together with William Trubridge and Alexey Molchanov.
Life
Malina began diving in 2008. On 24 September 2011 he won a world vice-championship for the first time in Kalamata, Greece by diving 106 metres in the free immersion (FIM) discipline. He achieved his first world record in the dynamic apnea without fins (DNF) discipline on 9 November 2014 at the BRNO freediving competition[3] with a 226 metre dive. He became a world champion on 25 June 2015, diving 214 metres in the dynamic no fins (DNF) discipline at the world championships in Belgrade, Serbia. He set his first world record in the dynamic apnea with fins discipline (DYN) on 27 May 2016 and became a Polish Champion with a dive of 285 metres at the Polish Pool Championships.[1] Malina set his first world record in the free immersion discipline (FIM) at the Vertical Blue 2022 competition on 11 August 2022 in Blue Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas with a dive of 127 metres.[4]
Malina is featured in the Polish language film documentary, "On the Other Side of the Mirror" by Michal Braum.[5]
World records
- 127m Free Immersion, 11 August 2022
- 321.43m Dynamic, 15 June 2022
- 250m Dynamic no fins, 1 May 2022
- 290m Dynamic Bi-fins, 27 March 2022
- 250m Dynamic Bi-fins, 13 October 2019
- 316.53m Dynamic, 22 June 2019
- 300m Dynamic, 3 July 2016
- 244m Dynamic no fins, 2 July 2016
- 232m Dynamic no fins, 26 June 2016
- 285m Dynamic, 27 May 2016
- 226m Dynamic no fins, 9 November 2014
Personal bests
| Discipline | Result | Accreditation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | STA | 9:35min[6] | AIDA |
| Distance | DNF | 250m | AIDA |
| DYN | 321m[7] | CMAS | |
| DBF | 290m | AIDA | |
| Depth | CNF | 90m[8] | AIDA |
| FIM | 127m | AIDA | |
| CWT | 123m | AIDA | |
Filmography
Po drugiej stronie lustra (2014)[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sunnex, Jonathan (September 9, 2016). "Interview: Mateusz "Matt" Malina - Here And Now - DeeperBlue.com". www.deeperblue.com.
- ↑ "Molchanovs - 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗜𝗗𝗔 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗜𝗠 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘂𝘀𝘇 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮". www.facebook.com.
- ↑ "Last minute news! New DNF world record set!".
- ↑ "Mateusz Malina and Arnaud Jerald Set New World Records at Vertical Blue 2022".
- ↑ "My presentation at the Polish Diving Conference Zakrzówek 2014".
- ↑ "AIDA | Mateusz MALINA".
- ↑ "2022 CMAS Masters World Indoor Freediving Championship".
- ↑ "Overall Results | VERTICAL BLUE 2022".
- ↑ "Po drugiej stronie lustra (Film dokumentalny)".
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