Stephan Feck (born 17 February 1990 in

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) is a German diver who competes in the Men's 1 and 3 metre springboard. He won the silver medal at the

2010 European Aquatics Championships The 2010 European Aquatics Championships were held from 4–15 August 2010 in Budapest and Balatonfüred, Hungary. It was the fourth time that the city of Budapest hosts this event after 1926, 1958 and 2006. Events in swimming, diving, synchroni ...

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and at the

2011 European Diving Championships The 2011 European Diving Championships was the secondedition of the European Diving Championships and took part from 8–13 March 2011 in Turin, Italy. For the second time, the event was held separately from the European Swimming Championships. ...

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. At the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, th ...

, he competed in the Men's 3m Springboard but a calamity occurred after he slipped off the board and landed hard on the water on his back, scoring him zero from the judges. The video of his dive quickly became popular on the internet. At the

2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

, he competed in the men's 3 m springboard where he finished 17th in the semifinal and did not qualify for the final. He also competed in the men's synchronized 3 m springboard with teammate

Patrick Hausding Patrick Hausding (born 9 March 1989) is a German diver. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, with his teammate Lars Rüdiger, Hausding won a bronze medal in the men's synchronized 3 metre springboard competition. However, he did not repeat ...

. They finished in 4th place. Feck is trained by Uwe Fischer, the father of

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 divi ...

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German male divers 1990 births Living people Olympic divers for Germany Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Divers from Leipzig 21st-century German people {{Germany-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub