Loïc Leferme

{{short description|French freediving record breaker }}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}

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| name = Loïc Leferme

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1970|8|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Malo-les-Bains{{cite news | last = Henry | first =Michel | title = La mer engloutit Leferme | work = Libération| language = fr | date = 12 April 2007 | url = http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/sports/246983.FR.php| access-date =2007-04-12}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|4|11|1970|8|28|df=y}}

| death_place = Villefranche-sur-Mer

| occupation = freediver

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| children = 2

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Loïc Leferme (28 August 1970 – 11 April 2007) was a French diver who was the world free diving record holder until 2 October 2005, when he was surpassed by Herbert Nitsch.[http://www.apneamania.com/code/worldrec_main.asp?typeID=howr&discID=4 History of World Records] Loic was also a founder of AIDA in 1990 with Roland Specker and Claude Chapuis in Nice. In 2002 he set the world free diving record without any breathing apparatus at {{Convert|162|m|sp=us}}.{{cite journal |author=McKie, Nigel |title=Freediving in cyberspace. |journal=Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. |year=2004 |volume=34 |pages=101–3 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/8947 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131005155859/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/8947 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=5 October 2013 |access-date=2013-10-05}} His first world record was {{Convert|137|m|sp=us}}, set in 1999.{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/1999-07-24/1999-07-24-293614 Voici l’homme le plus profond au monde] On 30 October 2004, he extended his own world record to {{Convert|171|m|sp=us}} in the no-limits free-diving category.{{in lang|fr}} [http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/articles?ad=sport/20041030.FAP0168.html&host=http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/ Loïc Leferme bat le record du monde de plongée en apnée à 171 mètres de profondeur]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The premier advocate of this type of freediving which has come to be known as Chapuis Style Freediving. {{citation needed|date=February 2018}}

He died during a private training session in Villefranche-sur-Mer when his equipment failed and he did not reach the surface in time.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} He was in training for a planned record attempt in July 2007.