By euronews Published on 17/07/2025 – 22:03 GMT+2 •Updated 18/07/2025 – 2:03 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian extreme athlete who became the first person to break the sound barrier during a freefall jump in 2012, died Thursday in a paragliding crash along Italy’s eastern coast, according to officials. He was 56. Italian firefighters reported a paraglider crashed into a swimming …
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Ottilie Mitchell & Hollie Cole BBC News Getty Images Felix Baumgartner, who once broke the world record for the highest skydive by jumping from the edge of space, has died in a motorised paragliding accident in Italy. The 56-year-old fell to the ground near the swimming pool of a hotel while flying over the village of Porto Sant’Elpidio in the …
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Jul 17, 2025, 05:31 PM ET MILAN — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy, according to an official. He was 56. Italian firefighters who responded said a paraglider …
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The legendary daredevil, best known for his record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, lost control of his paraglider and crashed into a hotel pool. Renowned extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, most famous for jumping from a record 39 kilometres (24 miles) at the edge of space in the 2012 Red Bull Stratos project, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy on …
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