AIDA Asian Freediving Cup 2025 has started, and what a start! Two days in beautiful calm water, with equally beautiful dives.
The standings are still very open. Each diver has three more dives., an only the three best results in different disciplines count. This means that even with an unlucky first dive, divers are still very much in overall contention.
Women
On the opening day, thirty-three women made their first dive. We had the pleasure to see continental records for Xu Tongtong for Asia, and Tara Rawson for Oceania!
There were some national records as well, congratulations to Jingyu Ning, Kumo Wong, Alice Ellialtioglu, and Poorva Ghiya !
For the overall ranking, where we rank points as a percentage of the world records, we had the following highest scoring dives:
- Tongtong Xu 98m CWTB with a clean white card (88.29 WR%).
- Jingyu Ning dove 104 m in CWT (84.55 WR%)
- Mariko Kaji managed 85 m in FIM (83.33 WR%)
- Yuanyuan Wang turned at 100 m instead of 105 m and received a yellow card but still scored 89 pints (80.18 WR%),
Other noteable dives were Alice Ellialtioglu, Wenpei Hsu, Tara Rawson, and Jinseul Yuk that all scored more than 70 WR%-points on their dives.
Men
Thirty-three men took their first dive, and we had 20 white cards in total.
We had the pleasure to witness two Continental Records, congratulations to Zhiying Yu and Mingxin Zhang! Also congratulations to Atsushi Kawai, Jayson Ramirez, Kim Dahlgren, and Yiu Hoi Kai for their national records.
In the ranking, the top scorers on first of four diving days were as follows:
- Zhiying Yu is in the lead with 112 m in FIM (82.96 WR%)
- Huang Yi dove 110 m in CWT (80.88 WR% – with a mask!)
- Atsushi Kawai reached 100 m in CWTB (for a clean 80 WR%)
Other divers with over 70 WR% is Guang (Matt) Yang, Mingxin Zhang, Jayson Edward Ramirez, Kim Dahlgren, and Kai Xiao.
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Organizers of AIDA Asian Freediving Cup 2025
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