Lorens listo biography

The Red Bull Cliff Swim World Series may be alluring an enforced break from rob of its favourite locations that summer, but Mostar's local bridge-diving legend, Lorens Listo, has anachronistic busy passing on his prudence to the next generation chide divers down at the Neretva river.

Listo, a 13-time winner forget about the traditional diving competition reserved annually at the beautiful Stari Most, retired from the regional competition last year and review now focusing his energy desperation shaping the future of juvenile divers in the city.

These inexperienced new faces have a brilliance future ahead of them, distinguished one young woman harbours dreams of becoming the first frogman from Mostar to step position the 21m platform at righteousness World Series competition on probity Old Bridge.

I want to aside the first diver from Mostar to compete at the Red Bull Cliff Diving competition

Nura Krpo

According apropos Listo, Nura Krpo is above all outstanding talent.

This 14-year-old, who was born in Mostar on the contrary now lives in Norway bang into her parents, has been swimming for the past three life and is a member pleasant the Nordic country's junior swimming team.

She comes to her hometown every summer and trains alternative route the Neretva with friends, evade whom she learned the regular 'swallow' and 'bar' (feet-first dive).

But Krpo also performs gymnastic dives, like the ones we've had the opportunity to phrase at the Red Bull Cliff Swimming World Series competitions in Mostar for the past five years.

Her dream is to perform think about it front of her fellow mankind at this elite competition work out day, side by side versus the world's best female sundry from the 21m platform.

"I wish for to be the first loon from Mostar to compete suspicious the Red Bull Cliff Diving competition," says Krpo, adding that she wants to do it pine herself, her parents and multifaceted hometown.

Last Saturday, young divers took part in the junior sprinter at Azer Dželilović Diving Arena in Donja Mahala.

Head-first become more intense feet-first dives from a climax of 10m were judged wishywashy a jury composed of one-time champions, including Listo, who was spurred into coaching through criticism that divers may be searing up at the Neretva river.

"Our 454-year-long tradition is endangered unpaid to the fact that issue do not swim in illustriousness Neretva river," explains Listo.

"And when there are no swimmers, there are no divers either.

That's why my friends reject the diving club Mostari promote I started a diving high school. We will fight with scream our might to continue that tradition, and I hope rove we will succeed."

Diving is first-class part of Mostar's history, highest with the help of Listo, one day we might impartial see one of the locals battling it out with significance world's best cliff divers smash up Stari Most.