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divers Diver or divers may refer to: *Diving (sport), the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water *Practitioner of underwater diving, including: **scuba diving, **freediving, **surface-supplied diving, **saturation diving, a ...

, who competed on the international level:

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* Inga Afonina * Rafael Álvarez * Joakim Andersson * Robert Andersson *

Jennifer Abel Jennifer Abel (born August 23, 1991) is a Canadian former diver. She is currently partnered with Mélissa Citrini-Beaulieu for synchronized diving. She won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 3 m synchro diving even ...

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Jorge Betancourt Jorge Betancourt García (born February 13, 1982 in Matanzas) is a male diver from Cuba. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004 ( Athens, Greece). Betancourt twice (2003 and 2007) won a silver ...

* Hobie Billingsley * Myriam Boileau *

Noemi Batki Noemi Batki (born 12 October 1987) is a Hungarian-born Italian former diver. She was a member of the Italian National Diving Team at four Olympic Games and was a member of the sports section of the Italian Army, Centro Sportivo Esercito, and T ...

* Elena Bertocchi

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* Franco Cagnotto *

Tania Cagnotto Tania Cagnotto (; born 15 May 1985) is an Italian diver. She is the first female Italian diver to win a medal in a World Championship. A five-time Olympian, she won medals in both individual and synchronized springboard diving in her final appe ...

* César Castro *

Jennifer Chandler Jennifer Kay Bellamy Chandler (born June 13, 1959) is a retired American diver who won the gold medal in the women's 3-metre springboard event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. She also won a gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games and a bronze me ...

Chen Ruolin Chen Ruolin (; born 12 December 1992) is a Chinese diver. Her most recent competition saw her win the synchronized 10 metre platform diving event with her partner Liu Huixia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Career Chen was bo ...

Philippe Comtois Philippe Comtois (; born August 25, 1976) is a Canadian diver. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He began diving at age 9 and stopped diving in 2005. He finished his studies in accountancy at the Université du Québec à Montréal in April 2008 ...

Iohana Cruz Iohana Cruz Talabera (born January 9, 1980) is a female diving (sport), diver from Cuba. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 (Sydney, Australia). Cruz won a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan Americ ...

Cao Yuan Cao Yuan (; born 7 February 1995) is a Chinese diver and an Olympic gold medalist, having won three golds, one silver and one bronze in the Olympics. He has also won golds in diving at the World Championships and World Cups. Early life Cao ...

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* Thomas Daley *

Yasemin Dalkılıç Yasemin Dalkılıç (born 2 May 1979) is a Turkish female free diver. She holds numerous records in different categories of free diving. Though still in the middle of her career, she is already considered to be one of the all-time greats in the s ...

* Alexandre Despatie *

Klaus Dibiasi Klaus Dibiasi (born 6 October 1947) is a former diving (sport), diver from Italy, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his country, starting in 1964. He dominated the platform event from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, winning a ...

* Alexander Dobroskok *

Scott Donie Scott Richard Donie (born October 10, 1968, in Vicenza, Italy) is an American diver. He earned the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics on the 10 m platform, and placed 4th in the 3 m springboard at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atl ...

Troy Dumais Troy Matthew Dumais (born January 21, 1980) is an American competitive diver from California. Dumais has competed for the United States at four Olympic Games, winning a team bronze medal in the synchronized 3m in 2012. He attended the Universit ...

* Cassius Duran

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Janet Ely Janet Ely (later ''Lagourgue'' and ''Thorburn'', born September 12, 1953) is a retired American female diver. She competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and finished fourth in 1972, both in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform. In 1975 she won t ...

Paola Espinosa Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez (born 31 July 1986) is a Mexican diver and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she was her national team's flagbearer, and the 2012 Summer Ol ...

* Dick Eve

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Heike Fischer Heike Fischer (born 7 September 1982 in Demmin) is a German diver. She and Ditte Kotzian won bronze for Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's synchronized 3 metre springboard. She and Kotzian had previously won a silver medal for div ...

Erick Fornaris Erick Fornaris Álvarez (born January 2, 1979, in Havana) is a male diver from Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla d ...

Fu Mingxia Fu Mingxia (born August 16, 1978, in Wuhan, Hubei) is a retired Chinese diver, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion. She won the platform-diving world championship in 1991 at the age of 12, making her the youngest diving champ ...

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* Gao Min * Rebecca Gilmore *

Daniel Goodfellow Daniel Goodfellow (born 19 October 1996) is a British diver, two-time Commonwealth champion and Olympic bronze medalist. He first represented Great Britain as a senior at the 2013 European Diving Championships in the 10 m platform event and ...

* José Guerra *

Guo Jingjing Guo Jingjing (; born October 15, 1981, in Baoding, Hebei) is a retired Chinese female diver, and multi-time Olympic gold medalist and world champion. Guo is tied with her partner Wu Minxia for winning the most Olympic medals (6) of any female ...

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* Blythe Hartley *

Mathew Helm Mathew Helm (born 9 December 1980) is an Australian diver who won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's 10-metre platform. He was in first place at the end of the preliminary round and the semi-finals, but was passed by Chine ...

Émilie Heymans Émilie-Joane Heymans (born December 14, 1981) is a Canadian diver. She was born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Greenfield Park, a suburb of Montreal. Heymans has won four Olympic medals, two bronze and two silver. She was the first female ...

* Hu Jia

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Vera Ilyina Vera Sergeyevna Ilyina (russian: Вера Серге́евна Ильина, born 20 February 1974) is a Russian diver who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. Ilyina is the ...

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* Jia Tong *

Edwin Jongejans Edwin Jongejans (born 18 December 1966) is a retired diver from the Netherlands. He competed at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic in the springboard event and finished in eights and seventh place, respectively. His sister Daphne competed in the same e ...

Daphne Jongejans Daphne Cérès Jongejans (born 22 June 1965 in Badhoevedorp, North Holland) is a retired female diver from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics: 1984, 1988 and 1992. Background Jongejans' bes ...

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Bruce Kimball Bruce D. Kimball (born June 11, 1963) is an American diver and coach. He won a silver medal for the 10 meter platform at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Kimball was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His father is Dick Kimball, who coached nine divers t ...

Dick Kimball Dick Kimball (born c. 1935) is an American former diving champion and diving coach at the University of Michigan. He was the NCAA springboard champion in 1957 and the Professional World Diving champion in 1963. He coached the University of Mich ...

* Albin Killat *

Micki King Maxine Joyce "Micki" King (born July 26, 1944) is an American former competitive diver and diving coach. She was a gold medal winner at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the three meter springboard event. She was the dominant figure in women's di ...

* Ditte Kotzian *

Ulrika Knape Ulrika Margareta Knape-Lindberg (née ''Knape'' on 26 April 1955) is a retired Swedish diver. She competed in the 10 m platform and 3 m springboard at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won one gold and two silver medals. In 1972–1974 she was nam ...

* Beatrice Kyle

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* Irina Lashko *

Mark Lenzi Mark Edward Lenzi (July 4, 1968 – April 9, 2012) was an American Olympic diver and diving coach. Lenzi was known for his Olympic gold medal in the 1992 Olympic Games, and his Olympic bronze medal in the 1996 Olympic Games on the 3 m springb ...

* Lao Lishi *

Anna Lindberg Anna Ulrika Lindberg (born 16 November 1981) is a Swedish former diver. She won the 1m and 3m Springboard events at the 2006 European Aquatics Championships and the 2012 European Aquatics Championships. She is the daughter of former Swedish dive ...

Li Na Li Na (born 26 February 1982) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 2 on 17 February 2014. Over the course of her career, Li won nine WTA Tour singles titles including two Grand ...

* Li Ting *

Davide Lorenzini Davide Lorenzini (born August 8, 1969, in Verona) is a retired diver from Italy. Biography He is best known for winning the bronze medal in the men's 3 m springboard at the 1991 European Championships in Athens, Greece. Lorenzini represented h ...

Greg Louganis Gregory Efthimios Louganis (; born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver, LGBT activist, and author 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 Ol ...

Wendy Lucero Wendy Lucero-Schayes (born June 26, 1963 in Denver, Colorado) is a retired female diver from the United States, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics. A native of Denver, CO who attended Southern Illinois University, ...

* Igor Lukashin

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* Pat McCormick *

Heiko Meyer Heiko Meyer (born 2 December 1976 in Dresden, Sachsen) is a German diver who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000' ...

Yelena Miroshina Yelena Nikolaevna Miroshina (russian: Елена Николаевна Мирошина, 5 June 1974 – 18 December 1995) was a Russian diver, best known for twice winning the gold medal at the European Championships in the 10 m platform, ...

Anne Montminy Anne Katherine Montminy (born January 28, 1975) is a Canadian former competitive diver and lawyer. Diving career Montminy had a number of highpoints in her diving career; she won a gold medal on the 10m platform at 1994 Commonwealth Games a ...

* Bobby Morgan

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* Yeoh Ken Nee *

Chantelle Newbery Chantelle Lee Newbery (née Michell) (born 6 May 1977) is an Australian former diver. She won a gold medal in diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2006 became the 22nd athlete to be named in the Australian Institute of Sport Awards' "Be ...

Robert Newbery Robert Frederick Newbery (born 2 January 1979 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian former diver. He won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics and two bronze medals in the 2004 Summer Olympics, one with synchronised springboard d ...

Bryan Nickson Bryan Nickson Lomas (born 30 June 1990 in Kuching, Sarawak) is a former Malaysian diver. Lomas was the youngest Malaysian athlete to qualify for 2004 Summer Olympics when he was 14. He became the country's first world junior diving champion ...

* Axel Norling

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* Yevgeniya Olshevskaya * Yolanda Ortíz

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Rommel Pacheco Rommel Agmed Pacheco Marrufo (born 12 July 1986) is a Mexican diver. He was the gold medalist in the 10-meter platform at the 2003 Pan American Games. In the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished in 10th place in the 10-meter platform and 3-meter spr ...

* Yuliya Pakhalina *

Hugo Parisi Hugo Pellicer Parisi (born August 1, 1984) is a male diver from Brazil, who competed at four consecutive Summer Olympic Games for his native country, starting in 2004. A member of ' he claimed two silver medals at the 2008 South American Swimm ...

Annie Pelletier Annie Pelletier (born December 22, 1973) is a retired female diver from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the women's 3 metres springboard event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She was affiliated with the ''Club Aquatique Mon ...

* Peng Bo *

Fernando Platas Fernando Fabricio Platas Álvarez (born March 16, 1973, in Mexico City) is a Mexican diver. He began diving since he was a young boy. In 1990 he won in Germany two tests of 2 and 10 metres, and in that same year he won three gold medals in the ...

Dean Pullar Dean Lester Pullar (born 11 May 1973 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian diver, who won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics alongside Robert Newbery. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Dean currently owns an ...

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* Qin Kai *

Qiu Bo Qiu Bo (; born 31 January 1993) is a Chinese diver. He won the silver medal in the 10 metre platform event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is a four-time world champion at the World Aquatics Championships, winning the gold medal three times in ...

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Aileen Riggin Aileen Muriel Riggin (May 2, 1906 – October 17, 2002), also known by her married name Aileen Soule (also Aileen Riggin Soule), was an American competition swimmer and diver. She was Olympic champion in springboard diving in 1920 and U.S. nat ...

Axel Runström Axel Wilhelm Runström (15 October 1883 – 10 August 1943) was a Swedish water polo player and diver who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he was part of the Swedish water polo team, which was a ...

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* Sang Xue *

Sun Shuwei Sun Shuwei (; born February 1, 1976, in Jieyang, Guangdong) is a famous Chinese diver. Sun started diving training in 1984. As a talented athlete, he entered China national diving team in 1989. In 1990, he won the gold medal in the 10 meter p ...

Dmitri Sautin Dmitri Ivanovich Sautin (russian: Дмитрий Иванович Саутин; born 15 March 1974) is a Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver. He was born in Voronezh. Sautin started diving at age seven; however, h ...

Tobias Schellenberg Tobias Schellenberg (born November 17, 1978, in Leipzig) is a German competitive and synchronized diver. In 2000 he became three-time German Champion in competitive diving, and European Champion in synchronized diving on the 3 m spring ...

* Conny Schmalfuss *

Nora Subschinski Nora Subschinski (born 5 June 1988 in East Berlin, East Germany) is a German diver. She participates in the 3m springboard and 10m platform competitions. She won the bronze medal at the 2007 and 2011 world championships. She won four go ...

* Jacqueline Schneider * Andrey Semenyuk

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Leon Taylor Leon Taylor (born 2 November 1977) is a former British competitive diver. During his diving career he won medals at all major international events including a silver at the Athens Olympics. Following his retirement from competition, Taylor t ...

Tian Liang Tian Liang (; born August 27, 1979) is a male Chinese actor and former diver. Diving career Tian won gold in the 10 m platform event in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In the Summer Olympics 2004, he won the bronze medal in the 10 m platform event ...

Vladimir Timoshinin Vladimir Alexandrovich Timoshinin (russian: Владимир Александрович Тимошинин; born July 12, 1970, in Moscow) is a retired diver from Russia, who is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 10 m platfor ...

* Svetlana Timoshinina *

Hjördis Töpel Hjördis Viktoria Töpel (4 January 1904 – 17 March 1987) was a Swedish freestyle swimmer and diver who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She competed in both diving and swimming at th ...

Loudy Tourky Loudy Wiggins ( née Tourky) (born 7 July 1979) is a former Australian diver. She was born in Haifa, Israel to Palestinian parents, but moved to Australia when she was 3 years old. Wiggins was a gymnast at the Australian Institute of Sport, ...

Tan Liangde Tan Liangde (; born July 14, 1965, in Maoming, Guangdong) is a famous diver from PR China. He won silver medals in three consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 1992. He is currently a coach in Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately ...

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* Juliana Veloso

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Peter Waterfield Peter Graham Waterfield (born 12 March 1981) is a British diver and Olympic silver medalist. Diving career Waterfield's specialism is the 10-metre platform event, both as solo competitor and in the synchronised event with his former partner ...

Bob Webster Robert David "Bob" Webster (born October 25, 1938) is a retired American diver who won the 10 m platform event at every competition he entered between 1960 and 1964, including the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and 1963 Pan American Games. He later beca ...

Andreas Wels Andreas Wels (born 1 January 1975) is a German competitive and synchronized diver. He has competed at three Olympic Games. In 1997 he won his first international title, European Champion in competitive diving on the 1 m springboard. In 19 ...

* Ute Wetzig *

Laura Wilkinson Laura Ann Wilkinson (born November 17, 1977, in Houston, Texas) is an American diver, 3 time Olympian, and Olympic gold medalist. She is the first woman to win the three major diving world titles. Wilkinson retired in 2008. After nine years of ...

* Melissa Wu *

Wu Minxia Wu Minxia (; born 10 November 1985) is a retired Chinese diver, specializing in the 1 metre and 3 metre springboard, and synchronized 3 metre springboard events. Entering her first major championship in 2001, Wu represented China at every Asi ...

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Xiao Hailiang Xiao Hailiang (; born January 24, 1977, in Wuhan, Hubei) is a Chinese people, Chinese Diving (sport), diver who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He became an Olympic champion in the 3m Springboard Synchronized event at the 20 ...

Xiong Ni Xiong Ni (; born January 11, 1974, in Changsha, Hunan) is a Chinese diver who won his first Olympic medal at the age of 14 at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. He also competed at the Olympics in 1992, 1996 and 2000. Biography He att ...

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Yang Jinghui Yang Jinghui (; born May 15, 1983, in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a male Chinese diver who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He started diving in 1992 and entered into the National Team in 2002. At 2004 Athens Olympic Games, he won the go ...

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Zhou Jihong Zhou Jihong (, born 11 January 1965) is a Chinese diver who won the first gold medal for Chinese diving. Sports career Born in Wuhan on 1965, Zhou originally practiced gymnastics before switching to diving. In 1977, she entered the Hubei di ...

* Zhang Yanquan {{flagicon, China

Divers Diver or divers may refer to: *Diving (sport), the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water *Practitioner of underwater diving, including: **scuba diving, **freediving, **surface-supplied diving, **saturation diving, a ...