Guillaume Néry

Guillaume Néry, born on 11 July 1982, is a French freediver who grew up in Nice and became the youngest world record holder in the history of the sport. Specialising in constant weight, he joined the French national team at nineteen, reached 87 metres in 2002 and kept raising the world record until 113 metres in 2008, the year he helped France win its first team world championship gold. In 2011 he took the individual constant weight world title at Kalamata with a dive to 117 metres. An attempt at 129 metres in Cyprus in September 2015 became a 139 metre dive after the dive line was set wrongly, and the blackout and lung barotrauma that followed ended his competitive career. He is also a filmmaker and, with Julie Gautier, made the short film Free Fall in Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas.