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Mexico City: 3 metre springboard Egypt: Mohab El-Kordy 21 March 1997 (aged 24) Cairo: 3 metre springboard 10 metre platform France: Alexis Jandard 23 April 1997 (aged 24) Écully: 3 metre springboard: Matthieu Rosset 26 May 1990 (aged 31) Lyon: 10 metre platform Germany: Martin Wolfram 29 January 1992 (aged 29) Dresden
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 ...
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).
The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. From the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 until 1992, winter and summer Games were held in the same year.
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.
Russia's Nadezhda Bazhina's medal dreams were crushed by 0.0 on a horrible dive attempt after having a solid overall day.
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.
The diving competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured eight events [1] (postponed to 2021 [2] due to the COVID-19 pandemic).It was one of four aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, water polo, and synchronised swimming.