Winning Dive Women
In the women’s it was Canadian Lysanne Richard who dived to her first ever World Series victory following a strong first day of competition in her favourite cliff diving location. After pocketing the 2016 FINA world cup earlier this year, the 34-year-old is the 4th female to dominate an event and the one athlete to stop the ‘rocking rookie’ from Australia.
Winning Dive Men
Artem Silchenko came back strong after a month of no diving and 23 months after his last victory.
A little shorter was Steven LoBue’s podium dry spell as the American made it onto the podium for the first time since his win in Bilbao in 2015. Going into the final round as the leader was Mexican Jonathan Paredes, who reduces the gap to the overall leader Gary Hunt with the fourth podium finish in five competitions to sit in a strong second place going into the second half of the season.
Dave Pendleton is a dude who just loves BMX, loves filming, and seems to travel around quite a bit. I met the guy in California, but he lives in Utah. He made this trip video in San Francisco with Boyd Hilder and Alex Hiam, and he also spent a couple of months in Australia.
Over the past few years David has been stacking clips up for this video and today we’re excited to release it to you. Filmed along the way by his buds Alex Hiam, Boyd Hilder and Ty Andersen.
Powerful, dynamic and spectacular moves on vertical walls are guaranteed when the world’s best bouldering athletes meet for the season’s grand finale at the Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart, Germany on 25 and 26 September, fighting for the coveted adidas ROCKSTAR title.
The goal of competitive bouldering is to reach a hold that is marked as ‘top’ using as few attempts as possible. Apart from maximum power, dynamics and creativity, athletes need motivation and adrenaline to reach maximum performance in a competition, which is why this Master event combines white-knuckle competition bouldering with Rock ’n’ Roll.