Last year winner in the Women’s category Eliie Smart comes from Los Angeles, California. She began diving at the age of five and immediately fell in love with platform diving. Growing up she competed at the National level and then dove at the University of California, Berkeley, where she qualified for NCAA’s on platform and…
Jakub Kunasek (CZ)
Jakub Kunasek. Prague city represent! He attended his first Highjump event in 2012 as a viewer and was so charmed by cliff diving that he decided to try it himself and since 2013 he has been a regular participant of the competition! He placed third twice and second once in the Czech cup! He shoots…
Marco Ghioni (I)
Marco comes from Milan, Italy and is an osteopath doctor by profession. He does cliff diving for the passion and learned to dive at Lake Como with his friends. He lived in Miami and helped the diving team at the University of Miami to take care of their physical condition. He works with Olympic divers…
Petra Smolikova (CZ)
20th Highjump is also 10th event for Czech diver Petra Smolikova who began diving from a swing but couldn’t resist the adrenaline of the platform. Under the guidance of coach Lucie Absolonova she reached the height of 16m and the encouraging atmosphere of Highjump won’t let her ho back to lower levels. Apart from cliff…
Denis Vantuch (CZ)
Denis attended Highjump for the first time in 2012 when he was only 12 years old! Since then he has worked his way up to the top of Czech diving community and is now one of the best divers in the country. He still belongs to the youngest contestants of Highjump and we are very…
Celia Fernandez (ESP)
Madrid born but Barcelona based, Celia is the only Spanish high diver among the women category. She is a 30 year old diver with artistic and gymnastic background and have been competing in cliff diving since last summer. She appeared at 4 RedBull cliff diving events, 2 FINA High diving World Cups, Infinity drop competitions…
Laso Schaller CH
Another Highjump legend coming back to Hrimezdice – Laso is regular and one of the most famous participants of the event! Coming from Switzerland, he is currently a world record holder in high diving as not too long ago he has jumped from crazy 58,8 meters! That is a few meters higher than the well…
Viktor Kazakov (BGR)
Viktor Kazakov is a brand new addition to our men’s category! This 25 year old diver from Bulgaria started off as a trampoline gymnast and worked his way up to national and international level! He was a member of the Bulgarian trampoline team between 2008 and 2013. In 2014 he started performing in different shows…