What is AIDA

AIDA Latvia is a full assembly member of International Association for the Development of Apnea (AIDA INTERNATIONAL). AIDA Latvia focuses on developing of freediving, organizing national competitions, registering of national records and approving teams for world competitions. AIDA Latvia is represented by FREE-DIVING.LV.

Why to join AIDA

AIDA Members are eligible to participate in national and world freediving competitions. Their performances are registered in the official AIDA ranking system.

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National records

Records can be set in 9 different disciplines. Four of them are pool disciplines: Static Apnea (STA), Dynamic apnea Without Fins (DNF), Dynamic apnea With Fins (DYN) and Dynamic apnea With bi-fins (DYNB). All the rest are open water disciplines: Constant Weight Without Fins (CNF), Constant Weight (CWT), Constant Weight bi-fins (CWTB) and Free Immersion (FIM).

There are no competition for Variable Weight (VWT). No Limits (NLT) record attempts are not currently ratified.

DisciplineWomenMen
Pool
DYN Dynamic with fins
177m Ilona Bardiseva World Apnea 2026 Pool Championships, Budapest - Hungary
226m Antons Rjabuha World Apnea 2026 Pool Championships, Budapest - Hungary
DYNB Dynamic with bi-fins
155m Ilona Bardiseva World Apnea 2026 Pool Championships, Budapest - Hungary
227m Antons Rjabuha Riga Spring - AIDA DYN Performances
DNF Dynamic without fins
117m Ilona Bardiseva AIDA Moldova Championship 2025
185m Alexey Potapenko Riga Freediving Cup 2017
STA Static apnea
5:46 Yulia Marievich AIDA Lithuania pool competition
7:24 Antons Rjabuha STA Minicomps 2026
Open water
CWT Constant weight with fins
80m Yulia Marievich 33rd AIDA Freediving World Championship, Corsica 2024
66m Richard Abele AIDA Freediving World Cup September Competition
CWTB Constant weight with bi-fins
72m Yulia Marievich 35th AIDA Freediving World Championship 2025
62m Richard Abele AIDA Freediving World Cup September Competition
CNF Constant weight without fins
50m Beata Grickevica Spontaneous Blue Hole Competition
53m Richard Abele AIDA Freediving World Cup September Competition
FIM Free immersion
73m Beata Grickevica Red C cup (11th Edition)
70m Deniss Lindovers Freedom Depth Games Spring AIDA

Board members

Alexey Potapenko
Alexey Potapenko
phone: +371 29 412 728
e-mail: info@aidalatvia.org
Yulia Maryevich
Yulia Maryevich
phone: +371 22 143 441
e-mail: info@aidalatvia.org
Nikolajs Bardishevs
Nikolajs Bardishevs
e-mail: info@aidalatvia.org

Instructors and Judges

Instructors
NameSchoolSinceProfile
Yulia Maryevich
Apnea AcademyUnderwater Sports Coach, Category C, since 20122010 since 2010apnea.academy
Beata Grickevica
Molchanovs2012 since 2012move.molchanovs.com
Valeriy Kovalenko
Apnea Academy2014 since 2014apnea.academy
Judges
NameJudge levelSinceAIDA profile
Yulia Marievich
B-PoolE-Depth2012 since 2012aidainternational.org
Alexey Potapenko
D-PoolE-Depth2016 since 2016aidainternational.org
Nikolajs Bardishevs
C-PoolE-Depth2021 since 2021aidainternational.org
Jelizaveta Polulaha
E-Pool2025 since 2025aidainternational.org