Rhiannan
Iffland
Australia
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Cliff Diving
Date of birth | September 9, 1991 |
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Birthplace | Newcastle |
Age | 34 |
Nationality | Australia |
Career start | 2016 |
Disciplines | Cliff Diving |
In 2025, Rhiannan Iffland extended her invincible status for yet another season, collecting her ninth Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series title in a row.
After exploding onto the scene in 2016 with a debut victory in Texas, the 33-year-old has gone on to rack up unparalleled records in the sport. With 41 victories in 51 stops, 49 podiums, two unbeaten seasons and numerous other streaks and high-scoring achievements, the Australian has simply been untouchable for the best part of a decade now.
Despite dominating once again last year, winning six out of eight World Series events and wrapping up the title with a stop to spare before being crowned on home soil in Sydney for the second time, the Newcastle native described it as her most challenging season yet: “The biggest challenge has been trying to hold onto the motivation, the drive, the training, staying mentally focused for such a long season.”
Reflecting further on her career though, she admits: “I find it really important to take a step back and look at my world from the outside in, and try to remember how proud I should be of what I have achieved and how far I’ve come as a diver.”
An avid trampolinist from a young age, Iffland began diving at the age of nine and admits to being ‘petrified’ the first time she clambered up onto a platform. Soon enough though, she was competing regularly from 3m and 10m, before utilising her acrobatic skills to entertain crowds on cruise ships in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. It was during this time that she was first introduced to high diving.
After a stunning Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series debut in Possum Kingdom Lake, Iffland won four of the next six events, wrapping up her first title under the lights in Dubai.
In 2019, Iffland enjoyed the type of year most athletes can only dream of, winning all seven World Series stops to complete an historic perfect season. Remarkably, she then returned following the pandemic break to do it again in 2021, this time adding a first ‘perfect 10’ dive to her growing list of records.
In recent seasons, the champion has come under increasing pressure from Canada’s Molly Carlson, who not only broke her 13-stop winning streak in 2022, but is also the only diver to keep her off the top of the podium since 2018, doing so twice last season.
Having stated her intentions to continue cliff diving for at least the next five years, Iffland could soon match the legendary Gary Hunt’s haul of 11 titles, perhaps surpass it. Iffland is on her way there, securing her ninth consecutive Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series title in 2025.
Having already secured her ninth title, her final dive of the 2025 season drew 9s from the panel and catapulted her to a third flawless season after similar 100 percent campaigns in 2019 and 2021.
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