Divers

💥💥 We present you the official aftermovie of this year HIGHJUMP Cliffdiving ‼️ Big thanks to all for 20 years of support. We all are Highjump. See you next year! What was Highjump 2019 like? How many divers competed at the 20th anniversary of this legendary summer event? Watch the final cut of our after…

The main contest, in which divers were jumping into a former quarry from a 25m platform, was ruled by only 17 years old Briton Aidan Heslop. Aidan managed to defeat the Czech cliff diving star Michal Navrátil by only a few points. The Czech cup has been won by Denis Vantuch from Brno and the…

Peter Roseney has been titled the greatest legend of Hrimezdice’s Highjump. This now 72 year old diver from Switzerland amazes everybody with his abilities and the difficulty of his jumps. He is one of the few who can finish their jumps head forward even from great heights. We are very much looking forward to welcome…

Aidan Heslop is a young British athlete who has already won the royal 20m category three times! We have a great respect to his talent and that’s why we decided to include him in our list of Highjump legends. He is a huge promise for the years to come and we will surely hear a…

One of the legends of Highjump and a favourite of the competitions! Andreas Hulliger, a diver representing Switzerland, reached the podium most of the time in the past years. He attended Highjump in 2009 for the first time and he has since never skipped an event. He is coming back again this year to fight for…

This is going to be Aimee’s first time competing at Highjump and – as she says – she is super excited and can’t wait to enjoy the magic of Highjump! Aimee is 24 year old diver from Vancouver, Canada and was originally a 3m springboard specialist. She competed for both team Canada and University of…

Is in different words an inflatable tubus. One of the jumpers sits on it and the other jumps on the other side and launches the first one into the air, where the height can reach over 10 meters. It is a very dangerous thing, therefore the jumpers have decided to do it only once a…

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, 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 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, 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 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…

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. 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 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…

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 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…

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…

This year Highjump cliff diving event is coming! On 2 – 3 August the top world athletes of this adrenaline sport will introduce themselves at the former granite quarry in Hrimezdice. One onf the biggest stars will be Czech diver Michal Navratil who has been an essential part of the world RedBull Cliff diving Series…

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 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…

Swiss diver Peter Roseney is a legend among the diving elite. Even though he is 72 years old he will be at Highjump yet again and he will compete! Two years ago Peter announced that it was his last season competing but he did eventually change his mind. He realised that coming into his seventies…

This year, like every year, Highjump is going to bring you new faces from a cliffdiving elite, who a Czech spectator hasnt seen yet. Because we are celebrating 20th anniversary, there is going to be many new cliffdivers at our event. Among the first is Jesse Macaulay! Jesse comes from Texas, USA and she is…

This year is Jan’s jubilee 10th anniversary with Highjump and he surely is a legend of this event! As always you can expect some spectacular show from this professional and talented diver who really enjoys the adrenalin that comes with every jump and simply loves cliffdiving! That’s apparent on his results, too – in the…

One of the best Czech cliffdiver Denis Vantuch has attempted to jump off the mythological Vysehrad rock. Check out the video to see how it went and how one of the world’s best flyboarders Petr Civin has helped him! The guys are now getting ready to present similar but much better show at Hrimezdice quarry…