Nataliia Zharkova

Nataliia Zharkova, born on 24 January 1989, is a Ukrainian freediver who has won five world championships and set five world records in constant weight bi-fins and constant weight without fins. She is the first Ukrainian and the second woman to dive below the arch of the Blue Hole vertical cave in Dahab, Egypt, on a single breath. She swam from the age of seven and spent ten years at the school of Olympic Reserve of Ukraine, then was introduced to freediving in 2008 and set Ukrainian national records at the 2009 world championship in Aarhus, Denmark. At the first depth world championships in Kalamata in 2011 she placed sixth in constant weight without fins.