Clement Droy, a slackliner from France, warming up during the Slackline World Championships in the Flims Laax ski resort.
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The world's 43 best athletes show off their skills 20 meters above the ground.
Image: Keystone
The highlines are between 65 and 110 meters long.
Image: Keystone
Clement Droy, a slackliner from France, warming up during the Slackline World Championships in the Flims Laax ski resort.
Image: Keystone
The world's 43 best athletes show off their skills 20 meters above the ground.
Image: Keystone
The highlines are between 65 and 110 meters long.
Image: Keystone
The world's best athletes competed at the Slackline World Championships in Laax on Friday afternoon. It is the second world championships for this young sport to be held in the Grisons resort.
The venue for the Slackline World Championships is the Crap Sogn Gion mountain station in the Flims Laax ski resort, 2216 meters above sea level. The world's 43 best athletes will show off their skills 20 meters above the ground on five parallel highlines measuring 65 and 110 meters in length. A strong, seven-strong delegation from Switzerland will be taking part.
They will be competing in the freestyle and speed highline disciplines. The former is about acrobatics on the taut high wire, the latter about crossing it as quickly as possible.
This is the second Slackline World Championships to be organized by the Swiss Slackline Association in Laax. The association is one of the pioneers in the effort to establish slacklining as an international competitive sport. Switzerland is considered the Mecca of the sport.
