Rudy Omankowski, Jr.

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.
Among his most notable performances is his 1.25km skywalk between two mountain tops in Gérardmer, les Vosges, France.Fact|date=May 2007 It is the longest skywalk known to have been achieved.

Omankowsky is now a highwire teacher at the Centre Nationale des Artes 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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