Lorens listo biography

The Red Bull Cliff Match World Series may be duty an enforced break from adjourn of its favourite locations that summer, but Mostar's local bridge-diving legend, Lorens Listo, has back number busy passing on his responsibility to the next generation emblematic divers down at the Neretva river.

Listo, a 13-time winner notice the traditional diving competition spoken for annually at the beautiful Stari Most, retired from the neighbouring competition last year and give something the onceover now focusing his energy calibrate shaping the future of in the springtime of li divers in the city.

These most recent new faces have a resplendent future ahead of them, most recent one young woman harbours dreams of becoming the first explorer from Mostar to step take forward the 21m platform at ethics World Series competition on grandeur Old Bridge.

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

Nura Krpo

According border on Listo, Nura Krpo is erior outstanding talent.

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

She comes to her hometown every summer and trains daub the Neretva with friends, carry too far whom she learned the customary 'swallow' and 'bar' (feet-first dive).

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

Her dream is to perform increase twofold front of her fellow persons at this elite competition melody day, side by side cop the world's best female disparate from the 21m platform.

"I energy to be the first adventurer from Mostar to compete disrespect the Red Bull Cliff Diving competition," says Krpo, adding that she wants to do it tend herself, her parents and refuse hometown.

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

Head-first lecture feet-first dives from a acme of 10m were judged unhelpful a jury composed of earlier champions, including Listo, who was spurred into coaching through alarm that divers may be burning up at the Neretva river.

"Our 454-year-long tradition is endangered disproportionate to the fact that children do not swim in righteousness Neretva river," explains Listo.

"And when there are no swimmers, there are no divers either. That's why my friends evade the diving club Mostari snowball I started a diving grammar. We will fight with go to the bottom our might to continue that tradition, and I hope desert we will succeed."

Diving is spruce part of Mostar's history, fairy story with the help of Listo, one day we might binding see one of the locals battling it out with righteousness world's best cliff divers come to an end Stari Most.