Ilaria molinari biography of williams

I discovered freediving at the age of 21. A few days after meeting Umberto Pelizzari, my friend, mentor and 17-time freediving world record holder, I dove with him to 25 meters. After that summer, I attended my first Apnea Academy course and began to compete.

In 2009, during the first Vertical Blue – an international competition at Dean's Blue Hole (202 meters), in the Bahamas –  after training for more than 10 days at depths ranging from 50 to 65 meters, I found out that I was pregnant and stopped competing (judges gave me a certificate of attendance with the maximum depth reached during the comp written on it and pronounced the following words: “the world’s deepest fetus!”).

I translated two books about freediving: “Breatheology” by Stig Severinsen and “Dry training for freediving” by U.

Pelizzari, R. Chiozzotto, F. Mana.

In 2013, after a long break due to university studies and pregancy, I started training hard again and received the second place at the CMAS Itali