Evolution of the sport – The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series is in its fifth year in 2013 and the sport keeps progressing every year. Cliff diving is more dynamic than ever and the tricks from 27 metres get more and more complicated. The degree of difficulty increases steadily and this year several athletes break the magical 6.0 hurdles. They perform three somersaults and four twists, for example, or five somersaults in just 3 seconds – is this the limit?
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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 Orlando Duque from Colombia are now challenged to put out their most perfect dives and nail them all at Niterói’s Icaraí Beach in order to stay in touch with the overall leader from England.
By a margin of just 1.65 points, Gary Hunt, the 29-year-old overall leader of the current season was declared the winner of the sixth round of the World Series in a competition that was not decided until the very last dive. Second place went to Russia’s Artem Silchenko and Orlando Duque, from Colombia, made it to the podium