TOP OF THE WORLD: IT’S RARE AIR FOR WORLD CHAMP
ROME: Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland has officially secured another cliff diving world title, this time in Polignano a Mare in Italy.
The Newcastle native, 30, won the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in style in Polignano, on Italy’s southeast coast, on Sunday, local time. She had already wrapped up the title by winning an event at Puglia a few days earlier.
“I can breathe easily now going into the last event of the season,” she said after winning at Puglia.
“Now I’m really excited for that one to just enjoy it.”
Iffland has picked up her fifth title in a row in the home of European cliff diving. She trained as a gymnast when she was at school and later trained at the NSW Institute of Sport with future
Olympic medallists Matthew Mitcham and Melissa Wu.
She has completed a number of stunning diving feats, including earlier this year when she became the first person in the world to dive out of a moving hot air balloon.