He is already on his fourth world record. The Frenchman Côme Girardot, specialist in Døds, also nicknamed “diving of death”, broke the world record for the discipline this Monday, October 7 by jumping 44.3 m high into the La Cimbarra waterfall, in southern Spain.
“A huge relief”
Døds is a discipline from Norway, which consists of launching like a flat, and bending in half at the last moment to limit the impact of the water on the body. While he had established a previous record at 34.25 meters in May 2023, the Franco-Swiss Lucien Charlon had improved the mark by exceeding the symbolic bar of 40 meters thanks to a jump measured at 41.70 meters. After several months of intense preparation, Côme Girardot wrote his name in the history of Døds with a new world record of 44.3 meters. “We’ve been working on this world record for 8 months. So it’s a huge relief that it’s finally over, and it went as planned. The feelings I had, I will never forget them” he commented after his feat.
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“Today the biggest challenge was the wind, there were gusts of 50 km/h and it can throw me off balance in the air. And the hardest part too is starting the countdown. The famous 3,2,1. The 3, it was super hard to say, because once you say the 3, it’s a point of no return. There is no more choice, we must jump” concluded the new world record holder in the discipline.
