14/08/2006
The Dillingen championship marks the move from the German word “Arschbombe” to the international name Splashdiving. STERN · 14.08.2006 ↗ ↗
26/06/2006
Summer 2006. SRF visits the Swiss national team training at Thun’s lakeside pool and features the reigning world champion from Münsingen. SRF · Schweiz aktuell · 26.06.2006 ↗
20/03/2006
Munich’s Olympic swimming hall became a stage for Splashdiving. A contemporary press release documents Arena Swim & Splash 2006 and a Germany–Austria team contest. Historische Pressemitteilung · openPR · 20.03.2006 ↗
04/09/2005
Simon Gfeller wins the 2005 cannonball world championship. Behind the result is a bigger change: the early German team is now part of an international competition. Zeitgenössischer Ergebnisbericht · funsporting · WM 2005 ↗
01/01/2005
A team on the tower. A pool full of people. And between them, that brief moment in the air where courage becomes skill. These original photographs from 2005 tell the story of a sport then known as Arschbombe.
10/08/2004
An August 2004 dpa report catches the first national team in preparation, with coach Florian Spiske and an idea becoming more than a poolside joke. Zeitgenössischer dpa-Bericht · Mitteldeutsche Zeitung · 10.08.2004
01/01/2004
A familiar jump becomes an event format. “Arschbombe. Die Weltmeisterschaft” (“The Cannonball: The World Championship”) is an early chapter on the road to Splashdiving. Originalbericht ↗
01/01/2003
Bayreuth, 2003. An early Cup becomes a starting point. Reports published in 2004 already trace the story explicitly to the previous year. MZ/dpa · 10.08.2004 · Rückblick auf 2003 ↗