Tom Sietas (born 12 January 1977 in
Hamburg
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, Germany) is a German
freediver
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving is a form of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.
Besides the limits of breath- ...
. He specializes in the
static apnea event, holding his breath under water, and the
dynamic apnea
Dynamic apnea is a discipline of competitive freediving, also known as competitive apnea. Dynamic apnea covers two of the eight competitive freediving categories recognised by the AIDA International (International Association for Development of A ...
event, swimming the greatest possible distance underwater without breathing. Sietas started free diving in the year 2000. Since then, he has set many world records and won many titles, including taking the world record from American extreme performer
David Blaine
David Blaine (born April 4, 1973) is an American illusionist, endurance artist, and extreme performer. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance and has set and broken several world records.
Early life
Blaine was born and r ...
about four and a half months after Blaine's much-publicised achievement in mid-2008. Sietas went on to add over five minutes to that record, which stood at 22:22 minutes when it was broken by
Goran Čolak
Goran Čolak (born 24 April 1983 in Zagreb) is a Croatian free-diver.
Career
Čolak started his amateur free diving career in 2006 when he entered his first competition, the Submania Cup in Zagreb. Less than one year later, he won his first Cro ...
.
History of records
*05/30/12: World record static apnea on pure
oxygen
Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as ...
– 22:22min (Changsha, China)
*12/30/08: World record static apnea on pure oxygen – 17:28min (Barcelona, Spain)
*09/19/08: World record static apnea on pure oxygen – 17:19min (New York, USA)
*07/02/08: World record in
dynamic apnea
Dynamic apnea is a discipline of competitive freediving, also known as competitive apnea. Dynamic apnea covers two of the eight competitive freediving categories recognised by the AIDA International (International Association for Development of A ...
without fins: 213m (Hamburg, Germany)
*06/07/08: World record in static apnea – 10:12min (Athens, Greece)
*05/12/08: World record in static apnea – 9:16min (Mainz, Germany)
*02/22/08: World record static apnea on pure oxygen – 16:14min (Madrid, Spain)
*11/27/07: World record static apnea on pure oxygen – 15:16min (Peking, China)
*08/09/07: World record static apnea on pure oxygen – 15:02min (New York, USA)
*05/01/07: World record in static apnea – 9:08min (Hamburg, Germany)
*08/30/06: World record static apnea – 9:00min (Tokyo, Japan)
*08/29/06: World record in dynamic apnea – 223m (Tokyo, Japan)
*12/30/06: Best freediver 2006 – ICARE Trophies 2006
*08/27/06: World record in dynamic apnea without fins – 183m (Tokyo, Japan)
*08/13/06: World record in dynamic apnea without fins – 182m (Hamburg, Germany)
*03/15/06: World record in dynamic apnea without fins – 180m (Tokyo, Japan)
*03/04/06: World record in dynamic apnea without fins – 176m (Maribor, Slovenia)
*12/21/05: Best freediver 2005 – ICARE Trophies 2005
*08/25/05: World champion in dynamic apnea (Renens, Switzerland)
*07/10/05: World record in dynamic apnea – 212m (Loutraki, Greece)
*07/10/05: World record in dynamic apnea without fins – 175m (Loutraki, Greece)
*12/19/04: German record (unofficial world record) in dynamic apnea – 215m (Hamburg, Germany)
*12/18/04: German record (unofficial world record) in dyn. apnea without fins – 175m (Hamburg, Germany)
*12/12/04: World record in static apnea – 8:58min (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
*11/20/04: German record in dynamic apnea – 186m (Berlin, Germany)
*10/30/04: German record (unofficial world record) in static apnea – 8:56min (Wiesbaden, Germany)
*08/12/04: World Champion in
Constant Weight
Constant weight (CWT) is a freediving discipline recognised by AIDA, the International Association for the Development of Apnea, in which the freediver descends and ascends using their monofin and/or with the use of their arms without pulling on t ...
and Static Apnea (Vancouver, Canada)
*08/12/04: German record in dynamic apnea – 180m (Vancouver, Canada)
*08/08/04: German record in constant weight – 70m (Vancouver, Canada)
*06/11/04: World record in static apnea – 8:47min (Hamburg, Germany)
*06/10/04: World record in static apnea – 8:27min (Hamburg, Germany)
*06/09/04: World record in static apnea – 8:12min (Hamburg, Germany)
*05/09/04: German record in constant weight – 67m (Nice, France)
*02/21/04: German record in static apnea: 7:48min (Berlin, Germany)
*09/06/03: German champion in constant weight and static apnea (Dellach, Austria)
Personal bests
See also
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Static Apnea
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David Blaine
David Blaine (born April 4, 1973) is an American illusionist, endurance artist, and extreme performer. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance and has set and broken several world records.
Early life
Blaine was born and r ...
References
2.Thợ lặn Đức lập kỷ lục nín thở: 22 phút 22 giây , TIME.com
External links
Current Freediving World RecordsDeeperBlue.comSept 2004 feature interview with Tom Sietas about accusations of doping
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1977 births
Living people
German freedivers
Sportspeople from Hamburg