Boston's ICA hosts the World Series' fifth stop on Sunday, August 25.

Following four stops in Europe, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series leaps over the Atlantic and into the second half of the season, touching down in one of America's oldest cities – Boston, Massachusetts, on August 25. For the third time, following previous stops here in 2011 and 2012, the international high diving elite will climb to the top of the 90-foot-high Institute of Contemporary Art building on Fan Pier and try to propel their performances towards perfection in the latest 'exhibit' at a place of inspiration and imagination.

US diver David Colturi claimed his first ever podium in front of his home crowd last year and returns to the East Coast as the winner of the last World Series competition in Malcesine, Italy.

After the longest competition break of the season, which gave the 10 World Series athletes time to rest and recuperate ahead of the demanding second half of the World Series, the divers are ready for the fifth stop of 2013. No better place could have been found than the sports-mad city that lived up to its nickname in 2012 when more than 40,000 spectators came to watch the world's top athletes put on a stunning show which features a 27-metre drop as the athletes accelerate to speeds of up to 90kph before hitting the surface of the water.

Four competitions have seen three different winners – in the World Series' fifth year everybody is on top of their game and the fight for the title is still wide open. Current tournament leader Gary Hunt, from England, Russia's Artem Silchenko, who already has two victories to his name in 2013, and the latest winner, 24-year-old David Colturi, are ready for the next challenge, along with the first-ever FINA High Diving World Champion Orlando Duque (COL), who sits in third place at the midway point of the Series.

Among the four wildcards invited to the Boston leg are three Americans – Andy Jones, Kent De Mond and Kyle Mitrione will make it five American divers in the start list besides World Series athletes Colturi and Steven LoBue – with Polish talent Kris Kolanus also competing. Back on the judging panel is the most famous diver of all time, the USA's Greg Louganis, as well as Anke Piper, Steve Foley, Tonio Martinez and Head Judge Claudio de Miro.

The 27.5m take-off board in Boston requires the most complex construction process of the whole World Series. One of only three urban venues on this year's calendar, it takes two trucks and an 85-metre-radius crane, two huge struts and many tonnes of steel to take most of the platform's weight off the building and stabilize the whole construction, which almost floats above the museum.

Founded in 1936, the ICA's mission is to exhibit contemporary art. Count on the divers to deliver unforgettable impressions on Sunday, August 25, with the competition beginning at 2pm local time.