Goran Čolak

Who is Goran Čolak?

Goran Čolak is a Croatian free-diver.

Čolak started his amateur free diving career in 2006 when he entered his first competition, the Submania Cup in Zagreb. Less than one year later, he won his first Croatian championship and broke several national records. Čolak turned professional in 2011 and joined the exclusive group of free diving professionals around the world.

Čolak was the 2009 CMAS Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques World Champion and world record holder in a joint event with AIDA International, the strongest free diving organization in the world. Čolak dove 244 m in dynamic apnea with fins and won CMAS and overall first place, breaking the CMAS world record.

Čolak was the 2011 Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques World Champion in dynamic apnea with fins, with a 250 m swim, setting a new CMAS world record, his fourth CMAS world record in his short career. On 16 October 2011, he became the AIDA International world champion in the same event, and set the new AIDA world record of 273 m, surpassing the previous record of 265 m held by Dave Mullins. At the same event he won two gold medals, one silver medal and set a new world record.