He said “to have resumed training without the niaque”. Here he is, world champion. Two months, after his world records at -116 m and -117 m, achieved this summer in the Bahamas – records broken in the wake by the Russian Alexey Molchanov, at -118 m – the freediver from Marseille Arnaud Jerald has just been crowned champion of the world.
In the competition which took place in Turkey on Saturday, he descended to -116m. Sufficient depth to clinch the title, competitor Alexey Molchanov having been disqualified after a diving foul. “I found myself going deep a lot easier than I did at the start of the season,” commented the athlete. It took one minute and thirty-four seconds to reach -116 m and slightly more to come back to the surface, his total dive time being 3’18 ”.