Rudy Omankowski, Jr.
Rudy Omankowski, Jr. is a France-based highwire walker born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia into a long line of circus and highwire performers.
Biography
Among his most notable performances is his 1.25 km skywalk between two mountain tops in Gérardmer, les Vosges, France.[citation needed] It is the longest skywalk known to have been achieved. Omankowski also traversed the Cheddar Gorge, Cheddar in Somerset England in 1959 and again in 1961. He did not use a net.
Omankowski is now a highwire teacher at the Centre Nationale des Arts du Cirque in Châlons-en-Champagne, France, and has mentored many prominent highwire and circus artists, including Didier Pasquette, Jade Kindar-Martin and Molly Saudek.
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