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The art of cliff diving returns to the Basque city to crown the 2019 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series champions while the women premiere in Spain and 2020 tickets are still up for grabs. Although the overall titles were sealed during the penultimate stop in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the pressure is high in the men’s and women’s as only the best performers will make the cut for 2020 during the year’s final aesthetic free falls from up to 27m. Record-setting champions Gary Hunt from Great Brit...

Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland retained her Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series title with another dominant victory in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, reeling off a majestic final dive into the Neretva River to win it in style with one stop to spare. Gary Hunt also claimed his eighth King Kahekili Trophy on a dramatic afternoon at Stari Most; the Brit having to settle for second place on the day after Romania’s Constantin Popovici wowed the crowd of 20,000 with a perfect dive to pick up five 10s f...

Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland retained her Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series title with another dominant victory in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, reeling off a majestic final dive into the Neretva River to win it in style with one stop to spare. In the women’s Eleanor Townsend Smart from the United States was the new face on the podium. In her first year as a permanent diver, the 23-year-old finished her 10th appearance in the World Series on second place, edging out Canada’s Lysanne Richard...

Gary Hunt had to settle for second place on the day after Romania’s Constantin Popovici wowed the crowd of 20,000 with a perfect dive to pick up five 10s from the judges. The 30-year-old Olympic athlete from Bucharest pocketed five 10s for a single dive in a competition where the judges pulled the highest note 8 times in the men’s. In only his first season as a permanent diver, Popovici had catapulted himself into contention for the King Kahekili trophy after a stunning start to the season sa...

In another commanding performance, 27-year-old Iffland not only bettered her own point record for an optional dive by a significant 13 points, but also received three 10s for a single dive – an absolute novelty in the women’s. It was not only the Australian who broke records in the competition from the city’s most significant landmark as second placed Jimenez improved the high score for a required dive on day one. With the slightest of margins ahead of fourth place, Belarussia’s Nestsiarava s...

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2016's champions will be crowned at first-ever night competition in Dubai, UAE on October 28 as the title fight in the women’s comes down to its climax.

Iconic Stari Most bridge serves as launch point for 22 athletes during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series’ 7th stop on September 24 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Czech continues his winning form in the 7th stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series as the Canadian dominates the women’s competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Iconic Stari Most bridge serves as launch point for 22 athletes during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series’ 7th stop on September 24 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Czech continues his winning form in the 7th stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series as the Canadian dominates the women’s competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Iconic Stari Most bridge serves as launch point for 22 athletes during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series’ 7th stop on September 24 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Czech continues his winning form in the 7th stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series as the Canadian dominates the women’s competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Cliff diver Paredes aims to keep heat on Hunt in historic Mostar 22 divers of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series return to Bosnia & Herzegovina for the 7th stop to continue their battle on September 24, 2016.

Navratil spoils Hunt’s homecoming with first ever victory at 53rd attempt Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland tops the women’s podium as Michal Navratil takes first ever Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series win at Welsh stop held under modified schedule in Pembrokeshire on September 10, 2016. © Red Bull Media House

Navratil spoils Hunt’s homecoming with first ever victory at 53rd attempt Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland tops the women’s podium as Michal Navratil takes first ever Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series win at Welsh stop held under modified schedule in Pembrokeshire on September 10, 2016. © Red Bull Media House

Navratil spoils Hunt’s homecoming with first ever victory at 53rd attempt Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland tops the women’s podium as Michal Navratil takes first ever Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series win at Welsh stop held under modified schedule in Pembrokeshire on September 10, 2016. © Red Bull Media House

Women make Pembrokeshire, Wales bow as Gary Hunt heads home for stop 6 of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series on September 11. With three British athletes in the 14 men and 9 female-strong divers line-up, Gary Hunt and former Olympian Blake Aldridge will be backed up by wildcard diver Mat Cowen, the serenity of this usually quiet corner of the country will get shattered during the athletes’ acrobatic 3-second flights into the fresh Celtic Sea.

Back in the European home of cliff diving going into the second half of the season! The year's fifth stop is held in the very south of Italy, in Polignano a Mare, where cliffs are the foundation of everyday life, with the town itself perched on the precipice. An enormous crowd can be expected, as this place not only means mozzarella, delicious raw fish and ice cream, but people of all ages fascinated by jumping into the water. Gary Hunt is aiming for his fourth consecutive victory from the 27...

Huge crowds, stunning dives and dramatic celebrations at World Series' birthplace The fourth stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series saw the world's best divers make a return to La Rochelle, where the competition made its debut back in 2009, as another classic battle unfolded from the 27 metre platform on the Saint Nicolas Tower. Gary Hunt recovered from a below average start to thrill the 70,000 strong crowd with a typically stunning display of diving, while Andy Jones and Mich...

Gary Hunt recovered from a below average start to thrill the 70,000 strong crowd with a typically stunning display of diving, while Andy Jones and Michal Navratil continued their impressive form with 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Following on from a thrilling competition at the mid-Atlantic cliffs in the Azores, the men will make a return to mainland Europe for the fourth stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. La Rochelle will once again be the historic setting as the world's best divers battle it out in front of record-breaking crowds, who are sure to provide a pulsating atmosphere. Watch the clip and get a taste of the action that awaits. © Red Bull Media House

In the women’s competition it was once again Rhiannan Iffland (AUS) who took first place in front of Lysanne Richard (CAN) in second and Ginger Huber (USA) in third.

It was Gary Hunt (GBR) who could defend his last year’s victory at the Azores. Andy Jones (USA) claimed the second place and Jonathan Paredes (MEX) completed the podium.

Diving from up to 28m with no protection other than concentration, skill, and physical control; in less than three seconds reaching speeds in excess of 85km/h, and punctuated by awe-inspiring tricks – that's the essence of cliff diving. Diving directly off the cliff face is a whole different ball game – for the season's most pure stop the planet's finest male and female divers will return to the so-called Princess Ring on Portugal's Azores next Saturday. © Red Bull Media House

On a windy day in the Danish capital, Gary Hunt (GBR) delivered a truly mesmerising masterpiece at the second Stop in Copenhagen, DEN. He claimed the win and achieved a new record, while Kris Kolanus (POL) who started with a Wildcard, showed the performance of his life. Jonathan Paredes confirmed his performence of the first stop in Texas, USA and reached the third place.

On a windy day in the Danish capital, Gary Hunt (GBR) delivered a truly mesmerising masterpiece at the second Stop in Copenhagen, DEN. He claimed the win and achieved a new record, while Kris Kolanus (POL) who started with a Wildcard, showed the performance of his life. Jonathan Paredes confirmed his performence of the first stop in Texas, USA and reached the third place.

Celebrating 50 stops of RB Cliff Diving World Series In 7 years Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series had 50 stops in 28 different locations, visited 23 countries and was present in 4 continents. Watch the most impressive moments and achieved numbers in this clip. © Red Bull Media House

The iconic Guggenheim Museum served as the fitting backdrop for the 50th stop of what has become the sport’s most prestigious series of competitions since its introduction in 2009. A ground-breaking season which has broken point records more than once and seen the highest diving complexity in seven years was topped with the coronation of England’s Gary Hunt as 5-time World Series champion. In Saturday’s 2015 showdown, Steven LoBue thrilled Bilbao and took his first season victory after a dif...

With an immaculate display of dives, Gary Hunt, the season’s dominating athlete, scored highest in each of the day’s three rounds and bettered his own point record by 14.30 points to an all-time high score of 548.20 points. Literally skipping to first place, the ‘brilliant Brit’ settled old scores with the venue in Italy’s south by successfully performing a running take-off. The World Series’ most experienced athlete – 41-year-old Orlando Duque (480.20pts.) – secured this year’s fifth podium...

Watch the competition week through the eyes of a cliff diver. Following the procedure, the rituals, the height feeling, the moment before the take off, reaction to the results from the judges, and much more. © Red Bull Media House

One day after his 26th birthday and after Mexico’s rising star started closing in on the podium’s top spot during the last competition in the Azores, Jonathan Paredes took the day’s high score (480.90pts) for the first time in his World Series career. Another premiere followed in second position with 24-year-old Sergio Guzman (471.05pts) being the first invitee to finish that high in the rankings in only his fourth World Series appearance. David Colturi (470.60pts), who sneaked into the final...

Jonathan Paredes takes first ever Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series victory in Mostar (BIH) on August 15, 2015. The Mexican had snatched the lead with a superb effort in Friday’s Seeding Round and went on to join a list of only 8 divers who have won an event in Red Bull Cliff Diving history. It was a stunning display of diving in Mostar’s old town on this red-hot Saturday afternoon. 12,000 fanatical spectators saw fellow Mexican Sergio Guzman score the first ever podium finish of a wildcard...

Cliff diving – in a place where diving from great heights has been a tradition for four-and-a-half centuries – a hand selected group of 14 of the world’s best cliff divers will be part of the first ever World Series competition at the ‘Stari Most’, the old bridge of Mostar, and the country’s most recognizable landmark. The first dives from the bridge date back to 1664, the first competition to 1968, and August 15, 2015 marks the day when Gary Hunt, the dominating Brit, will launch acrobatical...

'Life, Magic, and Love' - The fascination of cliff diving. “Some people don’t understand why we go up 27m and jump off, go back up there and do it again,” says Gary Hunt (UK), four-time Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series champion, expanding he goes on, “it’s fun, it’s extreme, and it’s work – but doesn’t feel like work.” Jumping off great heights with no protection other than concentration, skill, and physical control; in less than three seconds reaching speeds in excess of 85kph, and punc...

After the competition’s Seeding Round off the ‘Snakehead’ rock on Friday, the 31-year-old ‘Brilliant Brit’ was positioned only 12th but recovered to rack up a haul of 471.80 points to win for the fifth time in a row. And although the English winning streak continued, Mexico’s rising star Jonathan Paredes (450.90pts) – the youngest athlete in the World Series at 25 years of age – pushed the champion closer than anyone else has done so far this season, achieving 10s from the judges for two of h...

PURE CLIFF DIVING SEES NEW FACES ON THE PODIUM With three new podium finishers the 2015 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series enters a decisive phase Mexico’s Jonathan Paredes and Andy Jones, from the United States, cause a stir in the World Series as they dive into the top-three in the season’s purest stop on a volcanic islet in the Azores archipelago, behind the ever-dominant Gary Hunt, from England. In what was the year’s closest result from almost three times the Olympic height, the athlet...

Four stops, four victories – that’s Gary Hunt’s immaculate record at the midway point of the 2015 World Series season. The ‘Brilliant Brit’ has constantly increased the level of cliff diving complexity and difficulty, reaching new heights. With the next stop in the Azores archipelago, however, the sport not only returns to its purest form with 27m dives directly of the cliff face, but also to the location where the 31-year-old missed out on the final in the previous visit. Could difficult c...

The long process of learning a new cliff dive. In cliff diving, most elements are high: the number of somersaults and twists, the entry speed, as well as of course the take-off height. However, when starting to build a new dive, the professional athletes of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series go back to poolside and start with the ‘basic maths’ of their sport; breaking the dive into different parts, just to put it all together again when diving from 28m, and this includes various lead-ups...

A model of cliff diving consistency this year, the 31-year-old World Series record winner added another victory to his collection this weekend, his first one in Denmark. And just like in the season’s second stop in La Rochelle, France, the athletes from England made it a double, as former Olympian Blake Aldridge performed the sport’s hardest dive with a Degree of Difficulty of 6.3 for 8s and 8.5s from the judges to take second place. And it is the sport’s most experienced athlete and the winn...

Four-midable Gary Hunt takes the crown in Denmark 4th stop of the 2015 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series produce season’s second English-Colombian podium this Saturday.The Danish weather may change from hail to bright sunshine in the space of just five minutes, but there is nothing that can faze cliff diving’s reigning champion, Gary Hunt,as he won the fourth World Series stop in a row in Copenhagen. In front of 35,000 spectators, the Brit (511.60pts) finished ahead of compatriot Blake Aldr...

Who'll Become Cliff Diving's King of Denmark? Raise the curtain! When 14 of the world’s best cliff divers take possession of the Danish Opera House it’s time to fill the 28m gap between the platform on the rooftop and the chilly waters of Copenhagen harbour with diving complexity. After three consecutive wins for Gary Hunt, the reigning champion, could it be time for a changing of the guard this Saturday afternoon. Copenhagen provides the athletes with a panoramic view of the royal palace,...

In the competition divers need to perform 4 dives each. Two easy dives called required dives and two difficult dives called optional dives. The easy dives are to show form and grace and the difficult dives are about doing as many somersaults and twists as possible. There are rules to follow about the types dives the athletes can perform and the direction of take off as well. How hey choose it? How they decide execute one dive and not a different one. © Red Bull Media House

The hat-trick in wins went to the apparently unstoppable 30-year-old Gary Hunt, while Colombian legend Orlando Duque (478.70pts.) made it his third podium in three competitions and settled old scores with this location as he had finished bottom of the standings after a failed dive the previous year. Completing the podium was the third winner of a World Series, Russia’s Artem Silchenko (466.90pts.), who earlier beat American Andy Jones in his head-to-head by another very narrow margin, and lea...

With two 10s from the judges and the highest-scoring three-second dive of the whole competition, Englishman Gary Hunt makes it three wins out of three with a new personal-best score of 533.90 points in Texas. The season’s third stop operated under a revised schedule due to the probability of severe weather conditions in the region and produced a World Series champions’ podium, as Orlando Duque, from Colombia, and Artem Silchenko, from Russia – the winners in 2009 and 2013 – completed the top-...

The 2015 World Series, with two stops down, has been very much in English hands – two victories by Gary Hunt, a fourth and a second place for Blake Aldridge make it 670 points for the duo from the United Kingdom. When the cliff diving elite comes back to the 27m platform on Hell’s Gate at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, on May 29, it is a return to the venue where in 2014 the competition turned into a high-scoring shootout. And it was ‘brilliant Brit’ Gary Hunt who made his mark with the highest...

In less than three seconds, gravity propels the divers' bodies as they fall the equivalent of eight stories, reaching speeds in excess of 85kph. To be a cliff diver you need body control, self‐ confidence, concentration, mental control and courage. What the divers do with the fear? How they overcome and cope with fear? © Red Bull Media House

The season’s first stop on European soil was a return to the World Series’ all-time favourite location – La Rochelle. The town with the apt name of ‘little cliff’ was the lynchpin for the world’s cliff diving elite for the fifth time in the seven years of the series and it was Gary Hunt (516.00pts) who took an impressive win ahead of his nearest rivals. Second-placed Aldridge debuted a brand-new dive in World Series competition on Sunday - his reverse double somersault with five twists has no...

Champion Gary Hunt wins and Blake Aldridge performs the world's most difficult dive at second stop of the 2015 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in France. Hunt makes it back-to-back wins in the 2015 World Series with victory in La Rochelle. Fellow Brit Blake Aldridge performs a brand-new dive to come second, while Orlando Duque repeats his third-placed finish from Colombia. As of today these three athletes also lead the overall standings after two of eight stops. A record number of spect...