Umberto Pelizzari

Umberto Pelizzari (right) and Tomasz Nitka 2008

Umberto Pelizzari (born August 28, 1965 in Busto Arsizio ) is a former Italian freediver and world champion in various freediving disciplines.

Life

Umberto Pelizzari learned to swim as a child and was a successful professional swimmer. In 1984 - at the age of 19 - he started freediving with a height of 189 cm and a body weight of 84 kg. Around 1990 he was a close friend of Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras , husband of Audrey Mestre-Ferreras . The story of the deep diving competition between Pelizzari and Pipin was the plot for the Imax production Ocean Men: Extreme Dive , from 2001, which Bob Talbot directed .

Pelizzari was one of the founding members of the Association Internationale pour le Développement de l'Apnée , AIDA. In 1995 he set a world record in "constant weight diving" with a depth of 72 meters. In the evaluation with a variable weight of up to 30 kg in the "No Limits" discipline, he reached a new record in the following year with 110 meters. In the "No Limits" class with no weight restrictions, he dived 131 meters in 3:32 minutes and thus held records in all categories without breathing apparatus. In 1996 and 2001 Pelizzari was AIDA world champion with the Italian national team.

In 2001 Pelizzari ended his apnea career.

Pelizzari is currently a professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and a television presenter . He chairs the Apnea Academy and, with his former trainer Stefano Tovaglieri, wrote a high-circulation manual on freediving.

World records

Discipline °	date	place	World records	AIDA world records
STA	1990	Italy	05:33 min	x
STA	1990	Italy	06:03 min	x
CWT	1990	Italy	65 m	x
STA	1991	Italy	07:02 min	x
CWT	1991	Italy	67 m	x
VWT	1991	Italy	95 m	x
NLT	1991	Italy	118 m	x
CWT	1992	Ustica , Italy	70 m	x
NLT	10/11/1993	Montecristo , Italy	x	123 m
VWT	07/24/1994	Cala Gonone - Dorgali in Sardinia, Italy	x	101 m
VWT	07/22/1995	Villasimius in Sardinia, Italy	x	105 m
CWT	09/17/1995	Villasimius in Sardinia, Italy	x	72 m
VWT	09/09/1996	Villasimius in Sardinia, Italy	x	110 m
NLT	09/16/1996	Villasimius in Sardinia, Italy	x	131 m
CWT	09/13/1997	Porto Venere in Liguria, Italy	x	75 m
VWT	09/20/1997	Italy	x	115 m
CWT	10/18/1999	Italy	x	80 m
NLT	10/14/1999	Italy	x	150 m

° Discipline :
CWT = Constant Weight (deep diving with constant weight)
NLT = No Limit (deep diving with unlimited weight)
STA = Static Apnea (time
diving ) VWT = Variable Weight (deep diving with variable weight)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847889/
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ "Diving - record depth: 131 meters!", Sport-Bild from November 13, 1996, p. 54
4. ↑ AIDA, International Association for the Development of Apnea since 1992 [1]
5. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records Variable Weight Men”. [2]
6. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records Variable Weight Men”. [3]
7. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records Variable Weight Men”. [4]
8. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records Constant Weight Men”. [5]
9. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records Variable Weight Men”. [6]
10. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records No Limit Men”. [7]
11. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records Constant Weight Men”. [8th]
12. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records Variable Weight Men”. [9]
13. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records Constant Weight Men”. [10]
14. ↑ AIDA International: “World Records No Limit Men”. [11]
15. ↑ AIDA Germany: “Disciplines”. [12]

Web links

• Umberto Pelizzari official website
• Apnea Academy - School for Instruction and Research of Freediving - founded by Umberto Pelizzari