NÉRY GUILLAUME

Guillaume Néry grew up in Nice, France, by the Mediterranean Sea, and discovered freediving when he was 14 years old. At 15, he joined a freediving club, where he began to specialize in the constant weight discipline (wearing fins and without the use of a sled). At 19 years old, he joined the French national team and set a French constant weight national record of 82 meters (which also matched the world record at the time). The following year, he reached 87 meters in constant weight, becoming the youngest world record holder in the history of freediving. In 2004, Guillaume travelled to Reunion Island, where he set another world record of 96 meters. In 2005, while training for the first freediving world championships organized in Nice, Guillaume reached 100 meters during a training session. The same year, he reached 105 meters, which was Jacques Mayol’s last world record, set in 1983 in the No Limits discipline (going down with a sled, and coming up with a balloon filled with air). In 2006, he reached 109 meters. In July 2008, he broke the constant weight world record for the fourth time (113 meters). Two months later, with the French freediving team (with Morgan Bourc’his and Christian Maldamé) he became Team World Champion in Egypt. It was the first gold medal for the French Team in a freediving world championship. In 2011, Guillaume won the constant weight AIDA freediving World Champion title, in Kalamata, Greece, with a dive to 117 meters.