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Charls made his record-breaking dive at SeaWorld San Diego, which was viewed by millions of people on ABC's Wide World of Sports. [5] The dive was performed in conjunction with the Guinness World Records and the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Since 1983, many divers have tried to break this record, but sustained injuries upon impact with ...
High diving can be performed as an adventure sport (as with cliff diving), as a performance stunt (as with many records attempts), or competitively during sporting events. It debuted at a FINA event at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona , after the sport was added to the federation's list of disciplines.
Laso Schaller (born November 2, 1988, in Teófilo Otoni, Brazil) is a Brazilian-Swiss extreme athlete in high diving.He holds a world record for highest jump from land into water, which was set when he jumped 58.8 metres (193 feet) from a cliff at Cascata del Salto, Switzerland in 2015.
His record of 66 m (217 ft) for Constant Weight without fins, set in 2004, [5] was beaten by 14 m in 2005 by Czech free-diver, Martin Štěpánek, who was also the holder of the Free Immersion record of 106 m (348 ft); Nitsch recorded 100 m (328 ft) in September 2003, but his record was bettered by a dive of 101 m by Carlos Coste of Venezuela ...
The 60-year-old, whose real name is Darren Taylor, attempted to dive from very high up into a very shallow pool. “I'm gonna do a belly flop into 10 inches of water from 26 feet, 6 inches for a ...
Taylor is an American show diver from Denver, Colorado. He is well known for breaking high diving records using small pools. [1] [2] He holds the Guinness World Records for highest shallow water dive. [3] Taylor has been on The History Channel's Stan Lee's Superhumans and explained the form of his famous dive.
In 1946 Fransen made a record breaking high-dive from the roof of Earls Court Exhibition Centre, a height of 108 feet (33 m), landing in water at a depth of 8 feet (2.4 m). [1] The dive incorporated a full somersault followed by a head-first entry into a 16-foot (4.9 m) diameter (above ground) diving tank.
He then earned the highest single score of the qualifying round for his next dive and repeated the dive during the finals, earning the gold medal by a margin of 25 points. [7] In the 10 m finals , he won the gold medal, performing a 3.4 difficulty dive in his last attempt, earning 86.70 points for a total of 638.61, surpassing silver medalist ...