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United States: Hailey Hernandez 23 March 2003 (aged 18) Southlake, Texas: 3 metre springboard: Krysta Palmer 13 June 1992 (aged 29) Carson City, Nevada: 3 metre springboard Synchronized 3 metre springboard: Alison Gibson 9 July 1999 (aged 22) Houston, Texas: Synchronized 3 metre springboard: Katrina Young
Diving was first introduced in the official programme of the Summer Olympic Games at the 1904 Games of St. Louis and has been an Olympic sport since. It was known as "fancy diving" [1] for the acrobatic stunts performed by divers during the dive (such as somersaults and twists).
United States: David Fall United States: Clarence Pinkston United States: 1928 Amsterdam details: Pete Desjardins United States: Farid Simaika Egypt: Michael Galitzen United States: 1932 Los Angeles details: Harold Smith United States: Michael Galitzen United States: Frank Kurtz United States: 1936 Berlin details: Marshall Wayne United States ...
All of these dives come with DD (degree of difficulty) this is an indication of how difficult/complex a dive is. The score that the dive receives is multiplied by the DD (also known as tariff) to give the dive a final score. Before a diver competes they must decide on a "list" this is a number of optional dives and compulsory dives.
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.
The diving competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 27 July to 10 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. [1] [2] A total of 136 divers, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across eight medal events (four per gender in both individual and synchronized) at these Games, the same amount as Tokyo 2020.
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in diving (42 P) Pages in category "Olympic divers for the United States" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total.
This is a list of the divers who will be participating for their country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5–21, 2016. 136 divers are set to participate at the Games across four events.