More than 70,000 spectators flooded La Rochelle’s old port this Saturday afternoon for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2013 kick-off in France.
Artem Silchenko takes first season victory!
In a sunny La Rochelle the 29-year-old Russian achieved his premiere goal – a victory ahead of reigning World Series champion Gary Hunt and former Olympic diver Blake Aldridge, both from England. The fifth season of the sport’s most prestigious series of competitions got underway at possibly the scariest location of them all as the cliff divers mounted the platform on the historic Saint Nicolas Tower 27.5m above the 12°c chilly waters of the Bay of Biscay.
After this chilly launch into the World Series, the next stop will take the cliff diving elite even further north to Denmark’s capital city, Copenhagen, in four weeks’ time.

CALENDAR & LOCATIONS
May 24 – 25 | La Rochelle | FRANCE
June 21 – 22 | Copenhagen | DENMARK
June 28 – 29 | Azores, S.Miguel | PORTUGAL
July 13 – 14 | Malcesine | ITALY
August 23 – 24 | Boston | USA
September 13 – 14 | Pembrokeshire, Wales | UNITED KINGDOM
September 27 – 28 | Nitéroi, Rio de Janeiro| BRAZIL
October 21 – 26 | Krabi Province | THAILAND

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Dennis Schroth
Press Office quattro media