AIDA Asian Freediving Cup 2025: Final Rankings and awards!

Overall winners: Tongtong Xu and Sergey Zykov!

Tongtong Xu started strong with a continental record of 98 meters in CWTB and continued from there! The second diving day for women she performed a solid 89 meters FIM (new national record).

After the break she would focus on CNF and finish strong wit two white cards. First to 63 meters on the third diving day. And then she finished the AIDA Asian Freediving Cup 2025 in style with a new national record of 68 meters. Total score of 256.50 WR%.

Sergey Zykov started his campaign with a strong 70m CNF dive. On the second day he got a red card for his surface protocol. This would create some excitement in who would take home the overall in the men’s division.

Third day went according to plan with a strong 111m FIM dive. On the last day Sergey did a 104 meters CWTB dive that would secure him the overall championship. 235.05 WR% total.

Tongtong and Sergey would take home gift certificates from Molchanovs valued at 1000$ each. They also received 500$ cash – half from BESTDIVE and half from NB Freedive, and a BRANCIIIA neck weight. Both also received a pair of fins: Tongtong picked CETMA Mantra CWT and Sergey picked Tamera Competition Carbon Fins.

Podium positions

For the women, Mariko Kaji, came second about 8 WR% points behind the winner. The CNF specialist equaled Tongtong in CNF, but where a few points in the other disciplines.

For men there was excitement until the last day. There was at least three divers having a good chance of taking home the overall. In the end, Hua Yang Huang came in second after a clean 100m FIM dive

Second placed divers got 800$ gift certificate from Molchanovs and 350$ cash from BESTDIVE and NB Freedive. Mariko got Tamera Competition Carbon Fins and DOWNRISE neck weight of 800 grams. Hua Yang Huang got CETMA Mantra CWT fins and a Bada-Sea Bag from Tamera.

Alice Ellialtioglu repeated her position in AIDA Asian Freediving Cup 2024 ending third overall.

Zhiying Yu could have finished overall first with a white card on the last day.He was left with no additional points on the last day after dipping his airways and spending too long time on his surface protocol. But he had a 66m meter CNF dive from his second diving day, leaving him third overall.

Third placed divers received 600$ gift certificate from Molchanovs, 200$ cash from BESTDIVE and NB Freedive. Zhiying Yu got a pair of CETMA Mantra CWT fins and a DOWNRISE neck weight. Alice got a new BESTDIVE Zero resistance wetsuit and a BRANCIIIA neck weight.

AIDA Asian Freediving Cup 2025 Final Rankings

Fourth positioned divers Huang Yi and Ying Huang got 150$ cash from BESTDIVE and NB Freedive. In addition Huang Yi picked a BESTDIVE Zero resistance and two DOWNRISE neck weights. Ying Huang got a pair of CETMA Mantra CWT fins, a Tamera Splash Mesh Backpack and a BRANCIIIA neck weight.

Fifth placed Jinseul Yuk got 100$ cash from BESTDIVE and NB Freedive, a BESTDIVE Zero resistance wetsuit, a BRANCIIIA Vertexc buoy and a DOWNRISE neck weight. For men, Kim Dahlgren got the same cash from BESTDIVE and NB Freedive, as well as a BESTDIVE Zero resistance wetsuit and two BRANCIIA neck weights.

In sixth place Viktor Korsun and Ya-Hui Su received 80$ cash from BESTDIVE and NB Freedive. Viktor picked BRANCIIIA Aqua Elite SCS wetsuit and neck weight and mask from BRANCIIIA. Ya-Hui Su also picked a BRANCIIIA Aqua Elite SCS wetsuit, and she also got neck weights from DOWNRISE and BRANCIIIA.

Discipline Awards

In AIDA Asian Freediving Cup we want to award divers that don’t compete in the overall ranking as well. For these awards we don’t consider the divers that placed top six overall. This allows us to spread the awards around some.

For AIDA Asian Freediving Cup 2025, the discipline awards are a follows:

Women CWT:
Jingyu Ning for her continental record to 108 meters CWT
For this dive she was awarded a BESTDIVE Smooth Skin Classic wetsuit

Men CWTB:
104 meters Continental Record for Mitch Ayres, getting a BESTDIVE Smooth Skin Classic wetsuit.

Women CWTB:
Hou I Ming, for her 91 meters dive on day 9. She received a BESTDIVE Smooth Skin Classic Wetsuit.

Men CWT:
110 meters for Guang (Matt) Yang on day 4. For this he will receive a pair of CETMA Lotus Eco fins.

Men CNF:
Kai Xiao for Continental Record to 82 meters – receiving a BESTDIVE Smooth Skin Classic Wetsuit.

Women FIM:
Namin Kim for 72 meters, winning a BRANCIIIA Aquaforce Wetsuit

Men FIM:
Kai Wai Lee for 84 meters on day 4, taking home a pair of CETMA Lotus Eco Fins

Women CNF:
Hanxiao (Leah) Gu for 48 meters on day 6, winning a BRANCIIIA Aquaforce wetsuit.

7-10th place

We had a lot of awards, so we decided to award 7-10th placed athletes as well:

7th place:
He Xin: Two DOWNRISE neck weights (800 and 1200 grams)
Nikki Siu Haui Wong: BRANCIIIA neck weight and Tamera Splash Mesh Backpack

8th place:
Hoi Kai Yiu: BRANCIIIA neck weight and DOWNRISE neck weight 1.2 kg
Amanda Tran: Tamera Bada Sea bag DOWNRISE neck weight 800g

9th place:
Aakash Raj: Bada sea bag BRANCIIIA neck weight
Hou I Ming :Tamera Bada sea bag and Tamera Splash Mesh Backpack

10th place:
Michael Wai Yin Sung: BRANCIIIA mask BRANCIIIA neckweight
Namin Kim: Tamera Splash Mesh Backpack BRANCIIIA mask

White Card Awards

We also wanted to celebrate white cards. Also here we chose to focus on divers outside top six:

Four white cards:
Hanxiao (Leah) Gu, Nikki Siu Hai Wong,Poorva Ghiya, Wenpei Hsu, Kai Xiao, Wenbin Li

These divers received a BRANCIIIA DeepEye Mask, BRANCIIA Diver Tech-Hat or Tech-Cap, BRANCIIA DeepBreath Snorkel and a BRANCIIA MegaTank Bag.

Three white cards:
Amanda Tran, Fan Liu, Mimi Zou, Hou I Ming, Qing Dong Guo, Huanyi Liu, He Xin, Michael Wai Yin Sung, Yu-Wei Chen, Aakash Raj

These divers received a BRANCIIIA DeepEye Mask, BRANCIIA DeepBreath Snorkel. In addition they got either a Tamera Secred Mesh Hip Sack, a BRANCIIIA MegaTankg bag, or a BRANCIIIA Swim Cap+BRANCIIIA FinStockings.

Two white cards:
Kirra Chen, Namin Kim, Yifang Cheng, Xi Zheng, Jinah Kim, Tara Rawson, Yasemin Ulucan, Pattareeya Rattanaphan, Manman Wang, Jingyu Ning, Yi Ling, Hoi Kai Yiu, Ken Kiriyama, Yu Hung Lin, Ka Wai Lee, Quest Henkart, Mitch Ayres, Guang (Matt) Yang.

Divers with two white cards got a BRANCIIIA DeepBreath Snorkel or a BRANCIIA Diver Tech-Hat/Cap + BRANCIIIA FinStockings.

Divers with One or less white cards:
Four women and ten men got only one white card, and two women and five men got no white cards at all.

As a consolation they received a pair of BRANCIIIA FinStockings.

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Organizers of AIDA Asian Freediving Cup 2025

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