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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.
Women's diving debut happened at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the platform event and was expanded to springboard diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics. A parallel platform diving event for men, called "plain high diving", was presented at the Games of the V Olympiad. No acrobatic moves were allowed, only a simple straight dive off the platform. [3]
Games Gold Silver Bronze 2000 Sydney details Igor Lukashin and Dmitri Sautin Hu Jia and Tian Liang Jan Hempel and Heiko Meyer (): 2004 Athens details Tian Liang and Yang Jinghui ()
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 featured up to 136 athletes. All divers had to be at least 14 years old on or by 31 December 2020. For the ninth consecutive Games, China dominated the medal table, and for the fifth occasion in that period won gold in all but a single event; in this case, the 10 metre synchronised men's event won by Great Britain's Tom ...
This article details the qualifying phase for diving at the 2024 Summer Olympics.The competition at these Games comprised a total of 136 divers coming from their respective NOCs; each could enter a maximum of two divers per gender in the individual events and a gender-based pair in the synchronized events, respecting a sixteen-member (eight per gender) country limit. [2]
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally recognised sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.
Djurgårdsbrunnsviken hosted the diving events for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc hosted the diving events for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. For the Summer Olympics , there are 25 venues that have been or will be used for diving .