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High Diving

High diving is an aquatics discipline involving jumps from very great height, typically 20 m for women and 27 m for men in World Aquatics contexts. Take-off, rotation, body tension, feet-first entry, deep water and rescue cover are central.

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Classification

Category Water sport

Family Aquatics Family

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung High diving is high-height jumping into water from professionally controlled platform/cliff setups.

Geeignet für Suitable for experienced divers with technique base, water confidence and risk awareness.

Cost Start with diving/platform training; high-diving camps or specialist training are later expensive and rare. Coach, facility, travel, medical checks and competition costs. Diving club, national swimming/diving federation, World Aquatics-adjacent events. No cliff DIY: height only with approval, coach and safety cover.

First progress Diving basics take months; true high-diving heights are a long-term pathway.

Fitness level high

Was du brauchst

diving coach
approved platform
deep water zone
rescue team
weather/wind check
medical caution

First steps

check swim/diving base
find a diving club
train water entry and body tension
increase height only with a coach

Diving club, national federation, high-diving camp or World Aquatics-adjacent structure.

Only in approved deep water with safety crew; a bad high-height entry can cause severe injury.

Weitere Angaben

Tags high-diving, water-sport, aquatics-familie, wassersport

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Perform prescribed high-height dives safely and technically cleanly to score highest.

Teilnehmer

Individual divers.

Teamgröße

Individual.

Spielfeld

20 m/27 m platform or approved cliff venue over deep water.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

Judging by execution, degree of difficulty and deductions.

Gewinnbedingung

Best valid time, placing or score in the announced format.

Ausrüstung

platform/cliff
deep-water zone
safety crew
judges

Wichtige Regelpunkte

unsafe execution
wrong declared dive
rule/safety breach

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

World Aquatics
World Aquatics

High Diving Rules World Aquatics · federation · high
High Diving World Aquatics · official · high
About High Diving Swim England · beginner-context · medium