Paola Tagliabue (born 7 November 1976, in

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) is an Italian world champion

free-diver Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode 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 breat ...

. Tagliabue belongs to Tresse Diving Club of

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and she is also a member of the Italian national team. In 2005 at "Blue 2005", the most important worldwide free-diving convention, she published a work about lactic acid in free-divers. In 2006, Tagliabue became the world champion in

dynamic apnea Dynamic apnea is a discipline in competitive freediving in which athletes swim horizontally underwater on a single breath, aiming to cover the greatest possible distance. Performances take place in swimming pools and are governed by organization ...

free-diving with a 152.77 m dive, a CMAS world record. In June 2007, she won the Italian championship, setting a new record with a 156.55 m dive. In March 2008, she won the first Italian spring championship in dynamic apnea without fins with an 87.70 m dive, an Italian record.

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