Andrew Capobianco (born October 13, 1999) is an American Olympic diver.

Career

In 2021 he qualified with his diving partner

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for the U.S. Olympic Diving Team, to compete in the men's synchronised 3m springboard. Later during the Olympic Trials he also qualified for the 2020/2021 Summer Olympics in

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in the Individual 3m dive. At the Tokyo Olympics, Capobianco and Hixon won the silver medal in the men's synchronised 3m springboard, while Capobianco finished 10th out of 12 divers in the finals of the individual 3m springboard, from an original field of 29 in the competition. He participated at the

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, winning a bronze medal. Capobianco attended

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. He attended and competed for

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, where he earned All-American honors twelve-times.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Capobianco, Andrew 1999 births Living people American male divers People from Mineola, New York Sportspeople from Nassau County, New York World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Divers at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in diving Olympic divers for the United States Divers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in diving Olympic silver medalists for the United States in diving American people of Italian descent Indiana Hoosiers men's divers