Freediver Alice Hickson has broken by a 14m margin the British Dynamic Apnea record set by Rebecca Coales in 2014.
Competing at the Individual AIDA Pool World Championships in Finland, she swam 200m – four lengths of an Olympic-sized pool – on one breath, using a monofin.
Hickson described her approach to the dive as “the same old get in and do my best, come up clean – that’s all I can do. I didn’t have a number in mind – it’s only my third ever top in Dynamic. I just wanted to come up clean, as I knew my mum might be watching on the live stream!” During the dive she said she was just thinking about the huge waterpark next to the pool.
Hickson now holds all three pool-discipline national records. Besides her 200m swim, she has both held her breath for 6min 58sec in Static Apnea and swum 174m without fins in competition. She has been freediving for under two years, and burst onto the scene at the 2015 Pool World Championships in what was only her second competition – she became world champion, won gold and bronze medals and broke three national records.
With the championship qualifying heats complete, Hickson has won a place in all three finals – Static Apnea and Dynamic with and without fins. The event concludes this Sunday (3 July).
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