What is Natalia Molchanova?
[[File:Molchanova Natalia 1, Danmark, Aarhus, 5th Individual freediving World Championship, 2009.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Molchanova in 2009]] '''Natalia Vadimovna Molchanova''' ({{lang-ru|Наталья Вадимовна Молчанова}}, 8 May 1962 &ndash; 2 August 2015) was a [[Russians|Russian]] champion [[Freediving|free-diver]]. She was the President of the Russian Freedive Federation. Molchanova was born in [[Ufa]] in 1962.<ref name=r2>Oksana Gredzheva. [http://old.free-diving.ru/parser.php?r_id=82&p_id=28&c_id=164&view_msg=1&a_id=471 Чемпионка мира-2005 по фридайвингу Наталья МОЛЧАНОВА] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150809085617/http://old.free-diving.ru/parser.php?r_id=82&p_id=28&c_id=164&view_msg=1&a_id=471 |date=2015-08-09 }}. free-diving.ru (interview in Russian)</ref> She was the world's most decorated free-diver ever, with a total of 40 world records. On 2 August 2015 she was reported missing after a dive near [[Ibiza]], [[Spain]]. Initial rescue and recovery efforts were unsuccessful.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/sports/natalia-molchanova-champion-free-diver-is-missing-near-ibiza.html|title = Champion diver is missing}}</ref> She was presumed dead by [[drowning]] by rescue officials and her son.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/sports/natalia-molchanova-champion-free-diver-is-missing-near-ibiza.html?_r=1 Free Diver Natalia Molchanova Descends for Fun, Then Vanishes]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Molchanova, Natalia}} [[Category:1962 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Accidental deaths by drowning]] [[Category:Russian sportspeople]] [[Category:Divers]] {{sports-bio-stub}}