From natural wonders and visual feasts to historic sites and modern day metropolises – in its eighth season, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series will bridge pure venues and urban surroundings as much as it will push boundaries. In 2016, this gravity-defying sport will hit new as well as proven ground in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East to crown two new champions during nine tough and testing competitions, including seven stops for female athletes.
Japan and the UAE are new to the calendar of the 2016 World Series, in which the sport’s top athletes launch from 27 metres, hitting the water at speeds of 85kph just three seconds later. Between June and October, the competition will be hosted in Texas, Denmark, Portugal, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Bosnia & Herzegovina before embracing the latest additions to the calendar in Asia. The champions for both men and women will be crowned during a premiere event in Dubai.
In June, the 2016 World Series season kicks off at Hell’s Gate at Possum Kingdom Lake in the USA state where everything is bigger, Texas. Two towering cliffs, rising dramatically out of the region’s first water supply reservoir, provide the platform for the season’s premiere stop. The next competition takes the Series back to Europe and to its most northerly point, Copenhagen. The Danish capital city provides the athletes with a panoramic view of the royal palace, Amalienborg, and the adjacent domed Marble Church when mounting the 27-metre platform on the cantilever roof of the Opera House.
Going into July, a return to the World Series’ classics is scheduled: cliff diving directly off the cliff face on the Portuguese Azores, where the unique volcanic archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean serves as the take-off point for awe-inducing dives for the fifth consecutive time, will again be held on Vila Franca do Campo islet offshore from São Miguel; followed by La Rochelle, France. The town with the apt name of ‘little cliff’ will be the lynchpin for the cliff diving elite for the sixth time in the eight years of the series. The daunting venue in the Bay of Biscay topped its own record of the biggest World Series crowd of 75,000 spectators along the quay walls in 2015. Also on the verge of becoming an all-time favourite, but certainly the home of European Cliff Diving: Polignano a Mare, where cliffs are the foundation of everyday life, marks the halftime stop of the 2016 season end of August.
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