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Gregory Efthimios Louganis (/ l uː ˈ ɡ eɪ n ɪ s /; [1] born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on the springboard and platform. He is the only man and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games.
Considered one of the greatest divers of all time, Greg Louganis, a five-time medal winning Olympian and LGBTQ+ activist, plans to auction off three of his medals to support HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ+ ...
Greg Louganis United States: Vladimir Aleynik Soviet Union: 1980 Moscow details: Falk Hoffmann East Germany: Vladimir Aleynik Soviet Union: David Ambartsumyan Soviet Union: 1984 Los Angeles details: Greg Louganis United States: Bruce Kimball United States: Li Kongzheng China: 1988 Seoul details: Greg Louganis United States: Xiong Ni China ...
The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme. Defending champion Greg Louganis completed the preliminary qualifying after hitting his head on the springboard while performing a reverse 2½ pike in the third round and suffering a concussion, and continued to the finals to win the gold medal.
Starting when he was just 10 years old, Olympic champion Greg Louganis trained to be the greatest diver in the world. What he ultimately became, according to many, is the greatest diver of all-time .
Greg Louganis won the men's 3 metre springboard and 10 platform diving competitions. [17] Michael Gross won gold medals in the men's 100 metre butterfly and men's 200 metre freestyle swimming events.
Greg Louganis is recalling the hopelessness he felt during the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.. Appearing in NBC's documentary series My Generation, Louganis opens up about ...
Days after suffering a concussion during a missed dive in winning the 3 metre springboard event, defending champion Greg Louganis won the fourth gold medal of his Olympic career, scoring a near-perfect 86.70 points on his final dive to win by a narrow margin of 1.14 points. [2]