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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

A ground-breaking season, which started with the first ever competition in Colombia, home of the sport’s grand seigneur, Orlando Duque, and has broken point records more than once and seen the highest diving complexity in seven years of the World Series, will reach fever pitch in the season’s final showdown next Saturday. Bilbao’s La Salve Bridge will not only be the take-off strip for the year’s last aesthetic free falls and the place for the handing over of the 2015 champion’s trophy, but i...

Hunt and Simpson win Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series stop in Polignano a Mare, Italy, on September 13, 2015. The 31-year-old Englishman pulled off five 10s in three rounds of competition and finished with a running take-off and a personal best of 548.20 points, making it six out of seven victories this season. On his heels in the penultimate stop as well as in the overall standings is Colombia’s Orlando Duque in second, closely followed by Jonathan Paredes from Mexico only 2.45 points b...

While Polignano a Mare is the penultimate stop for the men’s 2015 World Series, where a tight battle for the top overall places will continue, for the female cliff divers this beautiful town in southern Italy will see the crowning of a champion. After the women’s first 20m off-the-cliff competition in Azores, wildcard Cesilie Carlton and fellow American Rachelle Simpson are tied in first place – everything will be decided in the women’s season final. The heat is on in the men’s category after...

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...

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...

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...

During the season opener in Cartagena, the Divers showed they have spent their off-season perfecting their technique, learning new dives and adding more difficulty to the World Series. Now it is time for the second stop in the French La Rochelle. It was later the overall champion Artem Silchenko who took victory during the divers’ last appearance in 2013 in front of the biggest crowd ever for a World Series event of 70,000 spectators. Can he repeat this feat this year or will four-time champi...

What are the Basics of Cliff Diving? It’s pure, it’s fast and it takes your breath away. Cliff divers leap aesthetically from almost three times the Olympic height and hit the water at speeds of 85kph, protected only by their concentration, skill and physical control. © Red Bull Media House

Colombia’s Cartagena hosted the season-opener of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 on April 25th. The world’s best cliff divers gathered at the Convention Center in Cartagena to leap aesthetically from the 27 meters platform. The beautiful seaside city, surrounded by 400-year-old city walls was a convenient venue for the kick-off event of this brand-new cliff diving season. 30.000 enthusiastic spectators witnessed cliff diving legend Orlando Duque (COL) and 13 of his most talented c...

It was a season-start in style for four-time World Series champion Gary Hunt, who dominated the first competition of the 2015 season in Colombia’s Cartagena, making it his 20th victory in seven years of the World Series. The Brit's haul of 526.20 points is his second-highest score to date, and just 0.20 points short of his personal best. 30,000 vocal spectators cheered their local hero Orlando Duque (477.60pts) to a podium finish from the 27m-platform on the Centro de Convenciones and secured...

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series starts on April 25 in Cartagena, Colombia this year. The location at Cartagena’s Convention Center with its splendid view over the bay of Las Ánimas provides for a proper location to launch into the seventh season. Six months after the coronation of four-time World Series champion Gary Hunt at the grand final in Mexico, 10 of the world's best cliff divers and four wildcards will be diving from 27 metres-high in their bid for glory during eight competit...

Fear is a major part in cliff diving. And safety is always the priority. Does a cliff diver need the feeling of fear to dive safely? What is it exactly, that scares them - the height, the risk of injury? How do scuba divers, a stable platform and the experience of overcoming your fears influence the diving performance? Is fear, in the end, something positive? © Red Bull Media House

It's not been a glorious summer for England, but the country do at least have one sporting hero: Gary Hunt made it back-to-back wins in Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series competition with another sensational victory on Ireland's Inis Mór on Sunday afternoon.

It’s pure, it’s fast and it takes your breath away. Cliff divers leap aesthetically from almost three times the Olympic height and hit the water at speeds of 85kph, protected only by their concentration, skill and physical control. Watch the Story Clip to get familiar with the basics of Cliff Diving. © Red Bull Media House

The divers showed breathtaking action at the first stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2014 in Cuba’s capital Havana. 60.000 spectators couldn`t believe how high the level in professional Cliff Diving has become. Blake Aldridge was the insuperable man. After a moderate performance in the first round on Friday he showed 3 great dives on the main competition day and took home a well-deserved first place, followed by Jonathan Paredes in 2nd and Gary Hunt in 3rd....

Blake Aldridge takes debut win at 2014 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series kick-off in Cuba. With his first victory in a World Series competition, the former Olympic diver has reached his highest goal yet. After his only podium finish in La Rochelle last year, Blake Aldridge made it to the top position in front of 60,000 enthusiastic Cuban spectators along the famous Malecón on a hot Saturday afternoon. It was a tight fight between the top six athletes in this season’s first 27m battle off Mo...