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A few years later a similar dive killed Nathan Meade (1966 – 1987), an Australian athlete in training. [6] [7] [8] Greg Louganis earned a gold medal with the same dive at the 1988 Summer Olympics. [9] At the University of Calgary, there was a memorial scholarship named after Chalibashvili for members of the university's swim team. [10]
Richard Anthony Rydze (March 15, 1950 – November 28, 2023) was an American diver who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.Rydze was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He competed in diving at the University of Michigan and won an Olympic silver medal while obtaining his MD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. [1]
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.
Pat McCormick, famed Seal Beach diver who won gold medals in the sport at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympic Games, has died at the age of 92.
English diver Tom Daley is competing in his fifth Olympics and after earning his fifth overall medal, he paid tribute to his father. Robert Daley died in 2011 of a brain tumor one year before Tom ...
Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 – March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956. She won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1956 – the second woman to do so, after Ann Curtis.
From 1990 to 1994, King was the president of US Diving, the governing body for US divers, and attended the 1992 Summer Olympics in that capacity. [8] At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, King was again the Olympic team leader for US divers; [ 8 ] she sequestered the team for intensive training at the University of Kentucky facilities before ...
A champion rower has died while free-diving. According to a GoFundMe page, shared last week, 27-year-old Austin Regier died in the Philippines on November 14, 2024. "He was swimming with new ...