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Louganis won two titles at the world championships in 1982, where he became the first diver in a major international meeting to get a perfect score of 10 from all seven judges. [7] At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, with record scores and leads over his opponents, Louganis won gold medals in both the springboard and tower diving events.
Li's silver-medal performance marked another remarkable turn for the 35-year-old diver, who captured 1-meter gold for his native China at both the 2011 and 2013 worlds before moving to Australia.
He fell into a week-long coma and died of heart failure, never having regained consciousness. [1] [2] Greg Louganis was a participant in the competition and witnessed the incident. He remembered what had happened as follows: I had a premonition. I closed my eyes and plugged my ears. I knew something terrible had happened when I felt the tower ...
Julie Farrell-Ovenhouse (born August 23, 1968) is an American diver. [1] She competed in the women's 3 metre springboard event at the 1992 Summer Olympics . [ 2 ] She has been described as "the greatest diver, male or female, to ever come through Michigan State".
She is also the only female diver to surpass the 600-points mark in the event; and she did it three times. Gao was chosen as the World's Best Diver of the Year by the U.S. magazine Swimming World from 1987 to 1989 and the Woman's World Springboard Diver of the Year for a record seven consecutive years from 1986 to 1992.
4 All-time medal table 1973–2024. 5 Multiple medalists. Toggle Multiple medalists subsection. 5.1 Men. 5.2 Women. ... Diver Country From To Gold Silver Bronze Total 1:
Rick Charls is a former American high diver who currently holds the World Record for the Highest Dive from 172 ft / 52 meters. [1] [2 ... All-American and a two-time ...
Matthew John Mitcham OAM (born 2 March 1988) is an Australian retired diver and trampolinist. As a diver, he was the 2008 Olympic champion in the 10m platform, and he is the 2nd highest single-dive score in Olympic history (at the time it was the highest scoring dive ever). This made him the first openly gay man to win an Olympic gold medal.