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World Championships: American High Diver James Lichtenstein Wins Gold American James Lichtenstein was crowned the world champion in the men’s high diving event at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, sealing it with a sensational final dive. Second place went to Spain’s Carlos Gimeno in the 27-met...

The world's best Aquatics athletes of the year were honoured tonight (Sunday December 16) at the fifth edition of the FINA World Aquatics Gala "Soirée des Etoiles", held in conjunction with the end of the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Hangzhou, China. Swimming legends Chad Le Clos ...

In a very personal tribute Italy’s only world-class cliff diver Alessandro De Rose commemorates the country’s special day ahead of the Italian leg of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series this Sunday. Equipped with glow lights in the green, white and red Italian Tricolore, the 26-year-old set the t...

Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland completed the perfect season in Bilbao, Spain, winning her seventh stop in a row to become the first Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series diver ever to go unbeaten all year. On the men’s platform, it was the familiar sight of England’s Gary Hunt celebrating in front of 27,...

The opening of the world's first High Diving Stadium took place this week in Zhao Qing, China. The new facility features a permanent 27-meter high diving tower and the opening was kicked off with a ceremony featuring some of the world's best divers, including reigning FINA World Champion Gary Hunt. ...

England's Gary Hunt and Rhiannan Iffland of Australia stretched their lead at the top of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series standings with two wide-margin victories in Polignano a Mare. The Brit was at his brilliant best in Italy, finishing a full 50 points ahead of second-placed Andy Jones of A...

The high diving final event has just concluded at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan. Gary Hunt of Great Britain, who was topping the standings in the preliminary round, became the holder of the world championships title, which is awarded only for the second time in the history of this sport...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. Men's 27-meter, the final diving event of the 18th FINA World Championships, took place this morning, July 24, 2019, in Gwangju, South Korea. In a thrilling finish, British diver Gary Hunt overtook American Steve LoBue in the fourth and final round. It wa...

After winning the final four stops last year, 7-time champion Gary Hunt began this season where he left off – the brilliant Brit is unbeaten in five competitions across seasons. In El Nido’s beautiful lagoons Romania’s Constantin Popovici edged the leader after three rounds, Jonathan Paredes from Me...

At the 4th FINA High Diving World Cup in Abu Dhabi April 28-29, FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu announced that the Federation has put in a request to the IOC to include High Diving at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. “This is an extreme sport and will certainly bring an added value to the Oly...

American high diver Steve Lo Bue earned his nickname "miracle-man" after hitting his head on the platform, and then successfully completing his dive, at a high diving competition in France two years ago. Today, the miracle man became the first American to win men's 27m platform. The former Purdue ....

Champion Gary Hunt wins and Blake Aldridge performs the world's most difficult dive at second stop of the 2015 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in France. Hunt makes it back-to-back wins in the 2015 World Series with victory in La Rochelle. Fellow Brit Blake Aldridge performs a brand-new dive to c...

Gary Hunt (GBR) and Rhiannan Iffland (AUS) were the winners of the 2019 edition of the FINA High Diving World Cup, organised in Zhaoqing (CHN) on May 25-26. This was the fourth consecutive title for the British star in this event, while the Australian ace revalidated her 2018 crown. Hunt concluded h...

18th FINA World Aquatics Championships Preview: Diving July 12-20 and July 22-24 (High Diving) BY ERIN KEAVENY   The diving competition at the World Championships the year before an Olympics is very important: it’s the first opportunity in which divers can qualify for the Olympic Games. Chinese d...

Caeleb Dressel and Sarah Sjostrom have been named 2019 FINA Best Athletes of the Year. Dressel enjoyed a record-breaking year during which he won six gold medals and two silver medals at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, to become the first swimmer to ever win eight medals in a single...

England's Gary Hunt and Rhiannan Iffland of Australia increased their stranglehold at the top of the 2019 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series with yet another victory each in the pure Portuguese Azores. For Iffland, it was a record-breaking fourth win in a row this season, while Hunt had to be at his...

Today was the first day of high diving for both men and women at the FINA world championships in Budapest took place. High diving competition is a little different from other diving events, not only because of the height difference. Divers only compete their lists once, but over the course of two di...

Reigning champion Gary Hunt picked up where he left off last year with another dominant display of 27-metre cliff diving in the first Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series event of 2015 at Cartagena's Centro de Convenciones in Colombia. The UK athlete, a four-time World Series champion who celebrated h...

CALI - The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series Lineup has now been confirmed. Superb physical condition, mental strength and eight excellent performances – these were the essential ingredients to qualify for the World Series, and the first Brazilian, plus four established athletes are the deserving f...

England's Gary Hunt and Adriana Jimenez of Mexico took a huge step in the fight for the King Kahekili trophy with crucial victories at the penultimate stop of the 2018 World Series in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Success at the historic Stari Most saw both divers leapfrog the current men's and wo...