Julia comes from a springboard and platform diving background. She was introduced to the magic of cliff diving by her best friend Anna Bader (Mad Hoppers). The elegance, the mental and physical challenge, pushing the boundaries and feeling the nature made her falling in love with cliff diving right away.Her first cliff diving competition was…
Julia Katharina Wenskus
Accompanying program – X-DIVING & BLOB
X-Diving – stylish splash jumps As a contrast to the normal jumps of Highdiving we will also have crazy splashes of the X-diving show. These guys will show you the craziest show that you can imagane. It will simply be splashes, choreography, painful and breath taking jumps. This discipline has its set jumps and their…
Damien Musy (FR)
Damien Musy, I am 20, I come from France, I dive for about 10 years. I discovered cliff diving 6 years ago with Ponte Brolla. Since then I train for one day to participate in this competition.
Irlanda Valdez (MEX)
31 years old. I Started working in dive and stunt shows back in 2014 just for fun, at the begging I Satrted diving dfom different heights up to 15m but last year I decided to challenge my self and went up higher, to 20 meters. My first professional competition as a high diver was in…
Jakub Kunasek (CZ)
Jakub Kunasek. Prague represent! First, he attended highjump as a visiotor in 2012. Cliffdiving has enchanted him and the next year he started competing. Since 2013 he is a regular competitor and he hasn´t missed highjumpo once. His placings in the Czech championship, 1x third place, 1x second place. His daily job is filming advertisements…
Jan Wilko Heinzel (D)
It is going to be his 9th year at Highjump. His personal record is jump off 30 metres, which he showed us at Highjump, too. This year he wants you to show the first three person synchronized jump from 30m together with Laso Schaller and Bastian Losen. He is a professional at Highdiving & Cliffdiving…
Elite divers will be at this year´s Desperados High Jump
This year´s open championship of the Czech Republic in Cliffdiving will be on the 3. and 4. of August 2018. Elite divers from Europe and all over the world will come to a flooded quarry in Hřiměždice near Příbram. The program will offer extreme dives from up to 30 meters, concerts, dj´s and accompanying program…
Andreas Hulliger (CH)
The last few years, most of the time Andreas Hulliger reached the podium in all three categories. His first High Jump was in 2009, since then he never missed one. . Therefore he is coming back to Hrimezdice this year to get back to the top of the podium. Andreas is a cliff diver representing…
Celia Fernandez (ESP)
I am from Madrid, but living now in Barcelona. I have been doing gymnastics since I am 8 years old. At the age of 23 I started with diving just from fun always with the dream of one day becoming high diver, and one and a half year later I was working in a big…
Robin Georges (FR)
French Robin Georges is 22 years old and he is a professional cliffdiver. Every year he competes at the worlds championship WHDF. This year he would like to join the Highdiving championship from 27 meters, organized by FINA. He used to work in a water show in an aqualandia in Lido di Jesolo in Italy….
Three Czech cliffdivers jumped from three Prague bridges
In the midle of summer there is an open championship in cliffdiving in the Czech Republic. The event will traditionally be in the flooded quarry Hříměždice near Příbram. This years date is during the weekend of 3rd and 4th of August. Symbolically, at this time, recently three Czech cliffdivers jumped from three Prague bridges at 3…
Introduction of Ian Jevnick (USA)
Every year we welcome novices at the Desperados Highjump. The most interesting one between the jumpers will be an American Ian Jevnick. Ian is an American jumper and acrobat from north Carolina, who has been jumping for 20 years already. Since 2013 he performs in jumping and acrobatic shows all around the world. His main…
Princess from Germany at the quarry again!
German diver Patrik Arendt has been part of the competition in Hřiměždice for many years. This year he will be at the Desperados Highjump for the 6th time and he will perform very difficult jumps from the highest heights. He has a nickname “Princess” because he is the funniest between all of the jumpers. This…
Veteran Peter Roseney will be in Hrimezdice again
Swiss Peter Roseney is a legend in the diving elite. Eventhough he is 71 years old he will be at Desperados Highjump and he will compete. Last year Peter announced that it was his last year competing, however he has changed his opinion, because he found out that 71 years is not a reason to…