article_title name birth_date
gary hunt
 gary hunt 11 june 1984
gary hunt

gary hunt -lrb- sometimes listed as roger gary hunt , born 11 june 1984 -rrb- is an elite sports diver , specialising in cliff or high diving , and is the 2015 world champion in the event , where he holds the championship record .
with a silver in the 2013 edition of the event , hunt is the most successful male diver in the short history of the fina recognised event .
hunt is a former olympic hopeful and commonwealth diver who has a number of medals at great britain national diving championships and placed 3rd in the 10m synchro event at the 2006 commonwealth games .
he chose to focus his diving career in the niche area of cliff diving , and has enjoyed an extremely rapid rise to the top of the sport .
in 2010 he won the red bull cliff diving world series , the premier championship within the sport , showing complete domination throughout the series and is thus considered to be the current reigning world champion .
he has a reputation for being a daredevil , pushing the sport to new extremes and inventing spectacular new moves to stay ahead of his competition .
