Red Bull Art of Motion

A unique mystery has emerged around the identity of the hooded runner carrying the Olympic Flame, who made their appearance at the opening ceremony on Friday, July 26.

Local boy Local boy Dimitris DK Kyrsanidis, aged 20, who won the Red Bull Art of Motion 2015 – held on Santorini for the fifth consecutive year – leaped back to glory again on Saturday, winning the title for a second straight year. His brilliant 90 second run wowed spectators who cuddled together atop rooftops, balconies and stairways in Oia, Santorini.

The Red Bull ‘Art of Motion’ Freerunning and Parkour Competition heads back to the island of Santorini on Saturday, October 3. Athletes will leap over the rooftops of Oia as they work their way through obstacles around the caldera and rooftops in an idyllic parkour course.

Free running is an amazing acrobatic sport that involves using fluid body moves while taking advantage of the surrounding environment to get from one destination to another. It requires intense training, extreme focus, great discipline and agility.

Free running, a martial discipline that was developed in 2003 as a more inclusive form of parkour, is based on the principle that one should express oneself by moving fluidly in the environment and that there are no limitations on the form of this movement.