The Pink Bull Cliff Diving World Sequence is coming to Montreal this summer season.
On Aug. 25 the Port of Montreal’s Grand Quay will stage one of many eight stops on the calendar, with Canada internet hosting for the primary time.
“Montreal is taken into account the excessive diving capital of the world,” Olivier Morneau-Ricard, Diving Plongeon Canada’s sport growth supervisor, mentioned in a information launch. “The significance of getting a significant occasion like this within the metropolis solely reaffirms our place as a world chief.
“This occasion can have a big affect on our excessive diving program. Younger individuals coaching in Canada will have the ability to come and see in particular person what’s being finished by the perfect athletes on the earth. There’s nothing higher to spice up their motivation.”
Different occasions on the 2024 circuit, which runs Might 26 to Nov. 10, are in Athens, Boston, Italy, Northern Eire, Norway, Turkey and Australia.
Molly Carlson, a 25-year-old native of Thunder Bay, Ont., who now calls Montreal residence, was second within the total standings final season.
The Pink Bull World Sequence sees the ladies dive off a platform 63 ft, or some seven storeys, above the water. The boys dive from a median platform top of 81 ft.
