At the Freediving World Championships in Honduras, Artnik dove to 113 metres on Thursday, improving the world record set by the Italian just a week earlier by one metre.

But Zecchini struck back, like Artnik plunging to a depth of 113 metres to share the world champion title and record.

This was not the only medal for Slovenia, as Samo Jeranko won third place with a 108-metre dive in a competition that the Russian Alexei Molchanov won with a new world record of 125 metres.