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Key Facts

Location: Saint Nicolas Tower
Platform height: 27M
Water depth: 5.5m-7m
Average water temperature in June: 16°C
Average air temperature in June: 21°C
Type of water: Seawater (Atlantic Ocean)

Red Bull Cliff Diving: France hírcsatornába

Feliratkozás a hírcsatornára
2011.06.20.

Gary Hunt toronymagasan vezet 2011.06.20.

Gary Hunt

70.000 néző, 60 km/h szélsebesség és 12, győzelemre éhes versenyző – a Red Bull Sziklaugró Világbajnoki Versenysorozat 4. állomásán, La Rochelle-ben újabb jelzőkkel bővült a gyűjtemény - a tucatnyi...

2011.06.19.

Red Bull Cliff Diving, La Rochelle: Várból ugrás 2011.06.19.

La Rochelle

A nagy szél ellenére rekord számú 70.000 fős nézősereg előtt zajlott a Red Bull Cliff Diving sziklaugró világbajnoki-versenysorozat franciaországi állomása, a festői szépségű La...

Esemény részletek

Helyszín
La Rochelle, France (Térkép ehhez a címhez )
Start
2011.06.18. 19:00
Vége
2011.06.18. 21:00
The city, whose literal translation is 'little cliff', hosts high diving competition for the third time in 2011. After two years of staging the kick-off competition, the French stop will be the midway point this time in the third season of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. An enthusiastic crowd of 30,000 and 50,000 spectators, respectively, have welcomed the world'€™s best high divers to France in past years, witnessing the victories of 'Iceman'€ Andrey Ignatenko from the Ukraine and Gary Hunt, the '€œbrilliant Brit'€. People have been passing between the Saint Nicolas Tower and the Tour de la Chaine to enter the city of La Rochelle via the seaway since 1345. On June 18, 2011, this 42 metre-high landmark and former jail with its pentagonal design will again be pivotal. With three competitions completed and three more to come after the French stop, the cliff diving elite –€“ among them national heroes Hassan Mouti and Cyrille Oumedjkane – will battle it out to determine who is the leader at the halfway stage. Looking back on a long tradition of fishing and trading, the seaport of La Rochelle was once the largest on the French Atlantic coast. Nowadays the city in the Bay of Biscay with its 81,000 inhabitants still maintains strong links with the sea by harbouring the largest marina for pleasure boats in Europe and has also maintained much of its old architecture, making it one of the most picturesque and historically rich cities on the whole Atlantic coast.