South Australian Freedivers club member and AFA Secretary Lisa Borg has taken out all-round third place at the 2017 Splash NZ Pool Nationals, held at Challenge stadium in Auckland. “I put a lot of pressure on myself at Australian Nationals and didn’t do as well as I would have liked, so I wanted this [...]
The 2017 Australian Pool Nationals were held at Sleeman Sports Complex in Brisbane from Saturday 29 April to Monday 1 May. The competition was the largest national pool freediving competition ever held in Australia with 44 athletes. Of these, 15 were women, making it the largest showing of female athletes thus far and moving the [...]
After the success of last year's inaugural event, the Australian Freediving Association returned to Tulamben, Bali from the 13-16th November for the 2016 Australian Depth Nationals. Partnering with Apnea Bali, the competition was another great affair, with a 58m Constant No-Fins national record highlight from Brisbane Freedivers' Amber Bourke. The competition was run [...]
From the 6th- 8th of May Sydney freedivers hosted the 2016 Australian Pool National Championships at the Knox Aquatic Centre. The 2016 Pool National Champions were Nicole Keating and Walter Steyn. Discipline Results The top three all-comers in each discipline were: Static Apnea Place Men Women 1st Walter Steyn (AUS) Anh Tu (AUS) 2nd Luis [...]
The Australian Freediving Association (AFA) and Freediving New Zealand (FNZ) are very excited to announce the inaugural Trans Tasman Team Challenge in Auckland from 2-6 August. The Trans Tasman Team Challenge brings the great sporting rivalry between Australia and New Zealand to Freediving by pitting two mixed gender teams of four from each country. The winning team [...]
2016 looks to be another strong year for the AFA, with both depth and pool nationals details soon to be announced, board reelection results and an upcoming Trans-Tasman team event. November 2015 saw the Australian Freediving Association hold its annual assembly general meeting, voting on 2016’s board members to be. The positions are as follows: [...]
Pan Pacs moves along swimmingly… then stops for the official Static Championships. Ahh statics… you either love em’ or ya hate em’… Right? Two national records were set this morning. Azam Hamid from Malaysia, at one with the pool in his perfectly azure blue wetsuit, set a national record for Malaysia with a 5 minute [...]
The Pan Pacific Freediving Championships have officially kicked off the afternoon of the 25.11.15 at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre, in Queensland, Australia. The opening ceremony saw Freediving prowess from all around the Asia Pacific region. Athletes have traveled from a variety of places including New Caledonia, China, Indonesia, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Venezuela. Competition [...]
Competition participants, including athletes, safety divers, judges, and supporters. (Photo: Julia Wheeler) The inaugural Australian Depth National Championship has now finished, with great success. The event was the first depth based Freediving competition for Australian freedivers in recent times and was hosted by the AFA and Apnea Bali on the beautiful east coast [...]
Ant Judge showing his strength - will he reclaim his free immersion national record later in the week? (Photo: Julia Wheeler) Divers have arrived in Tulamben, Bali, and have been training hard in preparation for Australian Depth Nationals, which starts on Thursday this week. A large crop of talent includes current and former national record holders and national [...]