Klaus Dibiasi (born 6 October 1947) is a former 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 total number of three Olympic gold medals.Klaus Dibiasi
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Dibiasi won a silver medal in platform diving at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and went on to win gold in the same event at the next three Games (

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). Dibiasi is the only Olympic diver to have won three successive gold medals, and he is the only diver to have won medals at four Summer Olympics. (

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, who won silver at his first Olympics in 1976, was prevented from attempting to replicate either feat by the

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.) A silver in the springboard in 1968 gave him a record total of five Olympic medals. He also excelled at the first two FINA World Aquatic Championships (

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), winning four medals. Nationally Dibiasi won 11 platform and 7 springboard titles. Dibiasi was born in Solbad Hall,

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, from Italian parents who returned to Italy when he was a child. He was the first Italian to become an Olympic champion in a diving event. Dibiasi was coached by his father, Carlo, a former Italian champion (1933–1936) and a competitor at the 1936 Summer Olympics in

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, who finished 10th on the platform. Klaus Dibiasi also later coached the Italian diving team.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dibiasi, Klaus 1947 births Living people Italian male divers Olympic divers of Italy Olympic gold medalists for Italy Olympic silver medalists for Italy Divers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in diving Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Universiade medalists in diving Universiade gold medalists for Italy Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade 20th-century Italian people 21st-century Italian people

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