Athlete requirements for records and rankings

Australian athletes competing locally or internationally need to fulfil various requirements for their performances to be added to Australian and international rankings. The requirements for both AIDA and CMAS competitions are listed below. Adhering to these guidelines ensures compliance with all national and international regulations for ratification of performances and records.

Submitting CMAS results to Australian national rankings: If you have participated in an international CMAS event and would like your dives to be added to the Australian national ranking, please visit the CMAS Results Submission page in the member portal to fill out the form.

Requirements: All Australian athletes must have active membership of the AFA at the time of their dives for their competition performance to count towards national rankings, records, and Australian team selection. If you are a current member of the Australian Underwater Federation in a different sport and wish to join freediving, you may contact us for a discount code.

Organisation-specific requirements are listed in full below.

CMAS Requirements

Current AFA (Freediving Commission of the AUF) Membership. To compete in any CMAS competition you need to be a current member of the AFA (Unaffiliated or Affiliated Club member). You can sign up here.
Sporting integrity courses
- Mandatory courses for athletes competing internationally:
  - Sport Integrity Australia:
    - The Antidoping Fundamentals e-learning course, and annual updates when they are released
    - Competition Manipulation and Sports Betting
    - Decision Making in Sport
  - WADA-ADEL: The Australian Underwater Federation executive has organised an exemption for Australians for this course. It is no longer required (the Sport Integrity Australia courses are recognised prior learning).
CMAS Sport License (World and Continental Championships).
To compete in A-Category CMAS competitions, you must hold an international CMAS sport license. You may apply for the sport license here and it will be approved by the Australian Underwater Federation. The AUF will only approve your sport license if all details in your athlete profile are correct and up to date.

AIDA Requirements

Active AFA membership.
- If you ordinarily reside in Australia, you must be an Unaffiliated or Affiliated Club member.
- If you are an Australian athlete who lives overseas on a permanent basis and you are a member of the AIDA National in the country you are living in, you may use the Australian Athlete Overseas membership. The AFA may request proof of residence. The AFA will activate your AIDA profile and your competition performances will count toward Australian rankings, records, and team selection. Please note that this membership class does not provide you with insurance or voting rights in the AFA. Furthermore, if you wish to
  1. compete at an event in Australia or at an AFA-administered competition you will also have to upgrade to Unaffiliated/Affiliated club membership for insurance
  2. apply for the National Team to attend a World Championships, you will have to upgrade to Unaffiliated/Affiliated Club AFA membership and follow other relevant procedures above.
Mandatory courses for athletes competing internationally:
- Sport Integrity Australia:
  - The Antidoping Fundamentals e-learning course, and annual updates when they are released
  - Competition Manipulation and Sports Betting
  - Decision Making in Sport
Active AIDA profile. The AFA manages AIDA profiles for Australian athletes. If you are a new athlete, you may create an athlete profile on the AIDA International website. AIDA profiles will only be activated for financial AFA members. Please note that this is a manual system with hundreds of athletes that we must cross check and there is a system reset each calendar year. It can take some time for all profiles to be reactivated. If you are participating in an Australian competition, the AFA will liaise with the competition organiser about athlete profiles and you do not need to contact us about it. If you need your profile activated to participate in an event overseas, firstly make sure that your AFA membership is active and then contact us with the exact name on your AIDA profile and the date of the event you wish to compete in.

National records and rankings

The AFA maintains both AIDA, CMAS, and combined rankings. For national team selection purposes, performances from both organisations are treated as equivalent. An athlete may apply to the Australian team for an AIDA World Championships based on their CMAS performances or vice-versa.

National records are administered under both AIDA and CMAS rules and the AFA maintains records for both. To claim an AIDA record, the performance must have been done under AIDA rules. To claim a CMAS record, the performance must have been done under CMAS rules. For performances to count towards records and rankings, the relevant administrative requirements for that organisation must have been satisfied.

CMAS Records

Australian CMAS record-keeping began in 2022 when the AFA joined the AUF. The AFA set performance minima for Seniors and Masters National Records. If there was a historic, valid CMAS dive meeting the criteria, it became the national record by default. Otherwise, the records were open. Current Australian CMAS records are maintained here.

Criteria for Seniors

Athletes must have a white card performance that matches or exceeds the AIDA records in pool and depth disciplines as dated November 2022. For speed and endurance apnea events, athletes must have a white card performance that matches or exceeds performance minima. The minima were set as percentages of world records such that that the benchmark for speed and endurance would be equivalent to Australian vs World records in other disciplines (e.g. DYN or FIM). Minima are:

Depth Targets	CWT	CWTB	CNF	FIM
Seniors Men	106	86	74	99
Seniors Women	80	–	68	80

Pool Targets	STA	DNF 25m	DNF 50m	DYN	DYNB	2x50m	8x50m
Seniors Men	8:01	184	177	223	214	0:45:53	–
Seniors Women	6:18	166	157.5	209	200	0:54:19	6:48:00

Criteria for Masters

Athletes must have a white card performance that matches or exceeds the performances listed below. These minima were set as a percentage of Seniors records based on analysis of Masters category performances in multiple other sports.

Depth Targets	CWT	CWTB	CNF	FIM
Masters Men
50-54	85	69	59	79
55-59	77	63	54	72
60-64	70	57	49	65
65-69	64	52	44	60
70+	58	47	40	54
Masters Women
50-54	64	50	54	64
55-59	58	45	49	58
60-64	53	41	45	53
65-69	48	37	41	48
70+	–	34	–	–

Pool Targets	STA	DNF 25m	DNF 50m	DYN	DYNB	Speed 2x50m	8x50m
Masters Men
50-54	7:13	147.2	141.6	178.4	171.2	0:57:50	7:01:00
55-59	6:33	133.82	128.73	162.18	155.64	–	7:43:00
60-64	5:58	121.65	117.02	147.44	141.49	1:19:58	8:30:00
65-69	5:25	110.59	106.39	134.03	128.63	1:16:53	9:21:00
70+	4:56	100.54	96.71	121.85	116.93	1:24:19	10:17:00
Masters Women
50-54	5:02	132.8	126	167.2	160	1:07:50	8:30:00
55-59	4:35	120.73	114.55	152	145.45	1:14:25	9:21:00
60-64	4:10	109.75	104.13	138.18	132.23	1:22:08	10:17:00
65-69	3:47	99.77	94.67	125.62	120.21	1:30:24	11:19:00
70+	3:27	90.7	86.06	114.2	109.28	1:39:23	12:27:00

AIDA Records

To set a new AIDA National Record, athletes must achieve a white card performance meeting or exceeding the current AIDA record. Australian AIDA records are maintained here. Please note that the AIDA International Ranking is incomplete for Australia. If you are unsure about the status of a particular record, please contact us.