Kazan, Russia will host the first FINA High Diving World Cup on August 8-10, 2014, bringing together the best high divers in action, one year after the successful staging of this new FINA discipline at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. A temporary tower is being erected on the Kazanka River, which will be used for the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, as well.
A total 34 divers, 25 men and nine women, coming from 15 nations – Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxemburg, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine and USA – will take part in the event, ready for eye-opening performances!
Two events are on the programme: a men’s competition in three rounds (August 8 and 10) and a women’s competition in one round (Aug 9). Men will perform five dives from the 27-metre high platform while women will take off at 20m, exhibiting three dives.
There will be required, intermediate and optional dives (with no limit of degree of difficulty). The top 12 divers, among men, will advance to the final.
Top qualifiers include world champions Orlando Duque (COL) and Cesilie Carlton (USA), and all medallists from Barcelona: Gary Hunt (GBR), current leader of the Red Bull World Series, Jonathan Paredes (MEX), Ginger Huber (USA) and Anna Bader (GER). All will be chasing their first World Cup title in Kazan.
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