LEAP YEAR: THE RED BULL CLIFF DIVING WORLD SERIES 2012 STARTS IN CORSICA

With his victory at the US leg of the World Series, reigning champion Gary Hunt is more than ready to perform in front of his home crowd at the sixth stop on the 2012 calendar. The 14-strong field of the world’s best cliff divers will exclusively focus on their performances off the 27m platform into the 15°C fresh Celtic Sea at the ‘Blue Lagoon’, the innocently and idyllically looking location for the UK debut. © Red Bull Media House

Pasta, pizza, mama mia, espresso - next stop Malcesine, Italy! The divers and the Italian way of life. Last season’s competition in Italy saw Artem Silchenko on the top podium and Series’ dominator Gary Hunt crashed after he world premiered his running take off and still misses an Italian victory in his collection. Maybe the new location at Lake Garda will fill this gap… © Red Bull Media House

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series’ fifth year has so far seen four different winners, a rookie on the podium and an unbelievably high diving level, especially in the two previous stops. Leaping over from the United Kingdom to Brazil, competition will be getting fiercer by the dive as the 2013 season approaches its grand final. With two stops left and after Gary Hunt’s victory in Wales mid-September, there are only two more athletes within reach of the overall win. Artem Silchenko and Orl...

How fit is a cliff diver? How important is physical fitness for dives from 27 metres? What’s the best recipe to become and stay high diving fit? Are the divers’ work outs useful for ordinary people as well? © Red Bull Media House

Sports-mad Boston welcomes the 6th stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 on August 20th The Boston Celtics, the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Bruins and the New England Patriots – this city has it all. America’s major sports are all represented by four highly successful teams. This weekend a new sport will touch down in the capital of Massachusetts. The world’s most prestigious series of cliff diving competitions comes to town as the athletes of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World S...

Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 comes to Ukraine for season’s grand finale Exactly one hundred years after Russian architect Leonid Sherwood started to build it in 1911, the “Swallow’s Nest” stages the culminating competition in the World Series’ third year. The ornate castle near Yalta on the Crimean shore in southern Ukraine provides the perfect backdrop for the crowning of this year’s champion. Gary Hunt from England will once again take the highest cliff diving honours after 20...

It is a place for active people and a beautiful place: Lake Garda offers a wide variety of sports in the water and on the surrounding mountains. Cliff diving will add one more sportive attraction to the region. After the chilly stop in the north of France, the almost Mediterranean climate welcomes the world’s best divers. How will they start into the second half of the World Series’ third season? So far we saw dominant victories, new faces on the podium and rookies and wildcard divers in th...

In 2012 this unique championship will once more be the platform for the world's most dizzying dives in seven stops between June and September in Europe, North America and the Middle East. In the blink of an eye, gravity lets the diver's bodies fall the equivalent of eight stories, reaching speeds beyond 85kph. With no protection whatsoever, and animated with thrilling tricks, the hand-picked athletes rely on their professionalism and experience as their bodies turn into Formula One torsos. Wh...