{"id":5582,"date":"2025-07-17T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5582\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:22:06","slug":"extreme-athlete-felix-baumgartner-dies-in-paragliding-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5582\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner dies in paragliding accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  By&amp;nbspeuronews\n<\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            17\/07\/2025 &#8211; 22:03 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n            ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner, who became world-famous for his jump from the stratosphere, has died in an accident in Italy. <\/p>\n<p>This was reported by several Italian media outlets. The Italian fire brigade and the Foreign Ministry in Vienna have confirmed the accident.<\/p>\n<p>According to previous information, the 56-year-old was travelling with his paraglider on the Adriatic coast, taking off from Fermo. <\/p>\n<p>He reportedly lost control of the paraglider, the reason for which remains unclear. What is certain is that he crashed. A tourist saw the accident and immediately alerted the emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>Baumgartner crashed into a swimming pool at a campsite and fell onto a woman, who was injured. According to media reports, Baumgartner suffered a cardiac arrest while still in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours before, he had posted an image in his Instagram story captioned: &#8220;Too much wind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baumgartner achieved worldwide fame for his breath-taking stunts. His most famous and perhaps most courageous stunt was a jump from the stratosphere in 2012. <\/p>\n<p>He plunged into the depths from a height of around 39 kilometres, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier in free fall. He reached a speed of 1342.8 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspeuronews Published on 17\/07\/2025 &#8211; 22:03 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT The Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner, who became world-famous for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3256,3255,59,3253,3254,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-5582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-extreme-sports","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-insolite-sports","12":"tag-skydiving","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}