This is the heartbreaking moment a female acrobat fell and was seriously injured while performing a trapeze act for children and their parents at a Russian circus.
Elizaveta Chumakova, 24, was hanging upside down by her feet about 10 feet above the ground when her grip failed as she grabbed a ring with her hand.
Luckily she was turned around so she fell feet first, but she fell to the ground and lay motionless during the show in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third-largest city.
The circus staff came to her aid.
She was taken from the circus ring to the hospital on a stretcher.
There was no safety net to break her fall as she performed with a group of tightrope walkers.
Elizaveta Chumakova, 24, was hanging upside down by her feet about 10 feet above the ground when her grip failed as she grabbed a ring with her hand
There was no safety net to break her fall as she performed with a group of tightrope walkers
It is believed she suffered fractures to her hip and foot, but miraculously her injuries were not ‘life-threatening’
She was conscious after the fall, despite eyewitnesses saying she hit her head during the scary fall.
It is believed she suffered fractures to her hip and foot, but miraculously her injuries were not ‘life-threatening’.
“She is at First City Hospital,” the Gia Eradze circus said.
‘Doctors are taking care of her.
‘But no accurate diagnoses have been made so far.
‘She is in contact with us.
“So far, all circumstances are being clarified.”
She has been working in the circus for ten years and it is her first fall.
The circus gave her a verdict while she was in hospital, saying she fell when her ‘favorite’ left foot gave way as she tried to grab the ring with her hand.
She told her fans: ‘It wasn’t too high… I’m alive.’