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Key Facts

Location: Lake Vouliagmeni
Platform height: 27M
Water depth: 7m
Average water temperature in May: 19°C
Average air temperature in May: 20°C
Type of water: Freshwater

Event Details

Location

Athens, Greece (Map this address )

Start

MAY 22, 2011 at 1:00 PM

About

The cradle of modern competitive sports welcomes the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series once again in 2011 after this venue had previously hosted the grand final in its first season in 2009 during which nine-times world champion Orlando Duque was awarded the overall Series title. At the steep banks of Lake Vouliagmeni, just a stone'™s throw away from the city centre where a whiff of the Olympic spirit is omnipresent, Duque will again fight for the victory in front of a limited number of 5,000 spectators on May 22. The amazing location around the so-called 'Sunken Lake' whose water maintains a constant 24°C all year round, is haunted by numerous mystical stories about voracious creatures, dangerous whirlpools and hidden treasures. Via an enormous and mazy underwater cave system, the healing lake is connected with the Mediterranean Sea and legends say that some innocent divers have been swallowed in the labyrinth. The Greek capital is known globally as the birthplace of modern democracy and a centre of fine arts. Famous buildings such as the Acropolis continue to provide testimony to that. Home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, Athens was also the birthplace of Socrates, Pericles, Sophocles and many other prominent philosophers, writers and politicians of the ancient world. Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it welcomed the 2004 Summer Olympics.