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Katura Horton-Perinchief (born 26 February 1983) is a Bermudian diver. [1] She competed in the women's 3 metre springboard event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. [2] She also competed at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games. [3] Horton-Perinchief was the first black woman to compete in diving at the Olympics.
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.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Knight-Wisdom became the first male Jamaican diver at the Olympics, as well as the first male diver from any Caribbean nation. [ 3 ] [ 12 ] [ 5 ] [ b ] Knight-Wisdom came in 2nd in the 1 metre springboard event at the 2019 Pan American Games . [ 14 ]
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Brandon Loschiavo (/ ˌ l oʊ ʃ i ˈ ɑː v oʊ / LOH-shee-AH-voh; born May 31, 1997) [1] is an American diver. He qualified to represent team USA in the 2020 Summer Olympics, competing in the Men's 10m Platform event. [2] [3] [4] Finishing second at the U.S. Olympic Trials, he was not guaranteed a spot on the Olympic
Vazquez competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games representing Team Mexico and became the first female Olympic diver in UNC history. She finished sixth in the finals in the women’s 3-meter ...
He mentored Olympic medalists and Princeton swimmer Jed Graef to a Gold medal in backstroke in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and Princeton swimmer Ross Wales to a Mexico City Olympic bronze medal in 1968. Clotworthy’s swimmers won almost as many national titles as he had earned as a diver, with a total of five collectively earned by Jed Graef, Ross ...
British athlete Tom Daley gave his diving partner, Noah Williams, a risqué gift before they teamed up at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Olympic gold medallist is competing in his fifth Olympic ...