Klaus Renz, World Champion in Skydiving
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2 X Vice Champion of the state of Baden-Württemberg Total number of jumps: over 5,600 |
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| 11.11.1984 | First skydive at the age of 16 |
| Since 1987 | Member of the German National Team, has performed more than 4,600 jumps |
| 19.04.1994 | Skydive over the North Pole out of 4,000 m altitude, minus 53° C |
| 20.06.1996 | Award of the highest German distinction for athletes, the silver bay leaf by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Roman Herzog |
| 26.02.1997 | BASE-Jump from the Angel Falls, the waterfalls with the highest altitude on earth (970 m / 3,200 ft) in the jungle of Venezuela |
| 01.01.2000 | Official start of the "Seven Continent Skydive World Tour 2000" (Antarctica, North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, South America) |
| 01.01.2000 | Antarctic: The tour was launched with a jump over the Antarctic out of 3,500 m altitude and minus 36° C. Klaus Renz is now the first german skydiver who has skydived the Antarctica as well as the Arctic. |
| 10.06.2000 | North America: Jump of an 30,000 ft / 9,300 m altitude and minus 42° C in Davis/California with oxygen mask. |
| 17.08.2000 | Europe: Jump over Schloss Bellevue, residence of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, as part of the "Tour of Hope" a fundraising bike tour for children with cancer with participation of many german celebrities. |
| 14.10.2000 | Asia: Jump during the Octoberfest, a school festivitys of the German School in Tokyo/Yokohama. The german embassdor Dr. Kästner welcame Klaus Renz. |
| 18.10.2000 | Australia: Jump over the National Parliament in Canberra. |
| 03.11. 2000 | Africa: Jump over the Guestfarm "Dreamfarm Otjimbojo C.C." in Namibia owned by Mr. Hans Ritter von Bleyle, out of 3.500m altitude. |
| 17.11.2000 | South America: Jump over the center of Medellin/Colombia - in the name of peace for Colombia and for the colombian prisoners and the work of Prison Fellowship International. The jump was organised in cooperation with Prison Fellowship International. With this jump the Guinness Book-Record was finished. |
| 18.03.2001 | Extreme BASE-Jump into "Sotano de las Golondrinas", a cave in the mexican rainforest, only 333 m (1,100 ft) deep. |
| 05.04.2001 | For the first time skydivers (Klaus Renz, two French, one Dutch) are awarded with the honourmedal of the European Counsil, for their merits in the name of sport and peace around the world. |
| 14.07.2001 | Klaus Renz is the first BASE-Jumper in history to jump off the Stuttgart TV-Tower during the "BASE-Jump Summer-Festival". |
| 12.12.2002 | Worldrecord 300-way Freefall Formation in Eloy / Arizona / USA. 14 aircrafts flew the team to 6,100 m altitude (21,000 ft). 70 seconds after the exit, with 200 km/h (~120 mp/h) vertical speed, was the formation completed. |
| 31.12.2002 | BASE-Jump from the Petronas Twin Towers (tallest buildings in the world) in Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia during new years eve at 11:58 pm. |
| 29.03.2003 | First Tandem-parachute jump in the history of Ethiopia for a childrens-care-project in Addis Abeba. |
| 06.02.2004 | As a Member of the worldteam '04, Renz and his skydivingkollegues set a new 357-way formation skydiving worldrecord in Thailand. |
| 26.03.2004 | 122-way German record formation skydiving from 5,700 m (19,000 ft) exit altitude in the United Arab Emirates. |
| 01.07.2004 | BASE-Jump from Moskow TV-Tower Ostankino, 367 m exit altitude. |
| 26.08.2004 | Appointment as ambassador for German Red Cross. |
| 31.01.2005 | Worldrecord 20-way Indoor BASE-Jump out of roof construction in 107 m in the "Tropical Islands Resort" close to Berlin. |