Orlando Duque, new sports director of the World Series of High Diving

Orlando Duque will be the sporting director of the World Series of High Diving, the valluno who is already 47 years old and more than two decades of experience, is now deprogramming as a competitor to manager in his sport.

In 2019, he had already made the decision to leave the competition after 20 years of sports career in which he reached the peak of success. Duque won a large number of important titles in his sport. The first of them was in 2000 when he would take his first steps as a legend of this sport.

Since then, with perseverance and discipline, it has become the most important exponent on the planet of the cliff diving modality, which has existed since 2009 and consists of doing a jumping circuit at a height between 21 and 27 meters from a platform trying to make the best score possible.

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Orlando has in his record up to 11 World Cup events in the cliff diving, being also holder of two Guiness Records by achieving the perfect score in a world diving championship and being one of the oldest men to compete in this sport.

Being sponsored almost all his career by RedBull, he will now face a new phase of his life as a manager in the sport of diving. Faced with this, the Caleño did not miss the opportunity to let his feelings known by announcing the news on social networks, he commented on his social networks:

The organization of RedBull Cliff Diving also commented on its social networks about the new hire and the new role of the Colombian in sports:

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The former Colombian clavado player will rule as an authority in the sport in which he so often performed in different parts of the world and from different platforms such as a helicopter, cliffs or an iceberg, as he did in 2018 when he cataloged the most dangerous jump he has done in his entire life when he did it from a block of ice of more than 20 meters high protected by a suit that would protect it from water temperature in Antarctica which reached -0 degrees Celsius.

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