Aleix Segura
Aleix Segura Vendrell (born in 1986, Barcelona) is a multiple World Champion[1] freediver both under AIDA and CMAS official structures. Through spearfishing he develops his apnea skills and starts competing in apnea (freediving) in 2011, reaching in competition during his debut year breath holds over eight minutes, and over ten minutes in the following seasons so far[2], achieving three World Champion titles in static apnea at the moment. He competes in both swimming pool and depth disciplines in the sea but spacializes in [apnea], which aims to hold the breath underwater the longest time. In 2016 he achieves also the official Guinness World Record[3] in static apnea with previous pure oxygen breathup reaching 24 minutes and 3.45 seconds in a TV[4] broadcasted event during the Mediterranean Dive Show 2016[5], becoming the longest official breath hold ever at the moment. He is the only one who ever held simultaneously the AIDA, CMAS, and Guinness World Record static apnea titles. He combines his freediving career with his professional activity as an architect in Barcelona.
Biography:
He is born in 1986 in Barcelona. As a kid he learns to freedive in the sea holding the breath during his family vacations in Costa Brava, the northern coast of Catalonia. He practices several sports prior to competitively develop his aquatic skills, football, taekwondo, judo and basketball until high school. Simultaneously he starts spearfishing which becomes the reason for him to further develop his apnea capacity, leading later on to the competitive purpose in 2011, after finishing his Architecture studies in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, which is his current job combined with his freediving career.
Titles:
- 2011 – Vice World Champion CMAS in static apnea, Tenerife, Spain
- 2012 – Vice European Champion CMAS in static apnea, Antalya, Turkey
- 2013 – Vice World Champion CMAS in static apnea, Kazan, Russia
- 2015 – World Champion AIDA in static apnea, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2015 – World Champion CMAS in static apnea, Mulhouse, France
- 2016 – Guinness World Record in O2 static apnea, Cornellà, Barcelona, Catalonia
- 2016 – World Champion AIDA in static, Turku, Finland
Links:
www.facebook.com/aleixseguravendrell
- ^ http://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/otros-deportes/20160625/402742481785/aleix-segura-campeon-sin-respiracion.html
- ^ http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/els-matins/aleix-segura-doble-campio-del-mon-dapnea-estatica-aguanta-10-minuts-i-set-segons-sense-respirar/video/5563858/
- ^ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-time-breath-held-voluntarily-(male)
- ^ http://www.eitb.eus/es/deportes/videos/detalle/3876738/video-aleix-segura-ha-logrado-record-guinness-apnea/
- ^ http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/cornella/salon-inmersion-cierra-record-guinness-apnea-cornella-4937047