I just saw perhaps the wildest sport in the world: The Red Bull Cliff Diving competition on Wolfgangsee in Austria. This as the last year, the big champion was Olando Duque, his jump was worthy of a six-time world champion.

With a perfect triple backflip coupled with a double twist, Orlando Duque (343,7 points) won the contest that was carried out by the 14 best cliff divers in the world. Sergey Zotin (328,8 points), cliff diving world champion of 2003, won second place, and another Russian took the third place, Sergej Zotin (306,3 points). Daniel Ballarin gave a sensational premier: as the American became the first-ever to perform a quintuple flip in a competition.

Jumping from a height of 27 meters, remaining 2.5 seconds in the air and landing at 90 km/h on the surface of the water, the dives were no easy feat. Three thousand spectators, most on ships, surf boards, paddleboats, and a collection of airbeds and dinghies, cheered in awe of the divers’breathtaking performances. I would have given a lot to have been there, it must have been breathtaking to see them jump!

Here’s a spectacular picture posted on the German Wildcard Photodesign.