Genevieve is a 27 years old diver coming from Hawaii to Highjump for the 5th time! A legend who’s very first attendance at Highjump 2015 resulted in first place hasn’t missed one event ever since. She has been cliffdiving for 5 years and started springboard diving in high school. Genevieve loves adrenalin and jumps off…
Honza Bily (CZ)
Honza Bily, last year winner of the Czech cup, is one of the top Czech cliff divers. He has been a Czech champion several times, he has participated at the European Championship and he is famous for high difficulty jumps. Apart from training for diving competition at the Hrimezdice quarry, Honza works a filmmaker. With…
Matthias Appenzeller (CH)
Matthias is a 25 year old diver from Switzerland who has got assigned a wildcard at the RedBull Cliff diving Series. He represents Switzerland in high diving and qualified for the High diving World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. He also placed first at the first Swiss Open – High Diving Championships 2019. Matthias is…
Michal Navratil jumped from the Bridge of Intelligence
Michal Navratil, currently the 4th best diver in the world, gets himself ready for contests in many different ways. There is practically no place in the Czech Republic where you can practice extreme highdiving and therefore Michal has to seek new spots and challenges all the time. One of such challenging ideas was to jump…
Jimmi Andersen (DK)
Jimmi is another legend we celebrate this year at Highjump! This Danish athlete (who had been high diving before almost anybody knew the sport) first came to Hrimezdice to compete in 2004! Jimmi has been doing gymnastics for 23 years now and he competed at national level in trampoline, tumbling and teamgym. He is twice…
Ellie Smart (USA)
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…