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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 ...
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]
Professional diving (commercial diving, diving for research purposes, or for financial gain) involves working underwater. Public safety diving is the underwater work done by law enforcement, fire rescue, and underwater search and recovery dive teams. Military diving includes combat diving, clearance diving and ships husbandry.
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.
The diving competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 7 to 20 August at Maria Lenk Aquatic Center in Barra da Tijuca. [1] It was one of four aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming , water polo , and synchronised swimming .
March 26 – 29: 2020 Canoe Sprint Asian Olympic Qualifier in Pattaya [1] May 6 & 7: 2020 Canoe Sprint European Olympic Qualifier in Račice [2] May 21 – 24: 2020 ICF Canoe Sprint Final Olympic Qualifier in Duisburg [3] July 26 – August 8: Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. July 26 – 31: Canoe slalom; August 3 – 8: Canoe sprint
Underwater diving is practiced as part of an occupation, or for recreation, where the practitioner submerges below the surface of the water or other liquid for a period which may range between seconds to order of a day at a time, either exposed to the ambient pressure or isolated by a pressure resistant suit, to interact with the underwater ...
Welcome to WikiProject Underwater diving. This is a collaboration of Wikipedians dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of underwater diving in all modes and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to ...