Iván Alejandro García Navarro (born 25 October 1993) is a Mexican diver. He is nicknamed "Pollo" ("Chicken"). He competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He won a silver medal in the 10m Synchronized Platform with his partner Germán Sánchez with a high score of 468.90. In the individual 10m Platform, García came the 7th with a score of 521.65. He won two gold medals in both the individual and synchronized 10m Platform in the 2011 Pan-American Games. At the

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García won the silver medal in the synchronized 10 metre platform diving, with his partner Germán Sánchez. At the 2015 Pan American Games, he retained the gold medal in the individual 10m platform back to back. In Rio 2016 he finished 10th on the individual platform.

Technical Features

Iván García is a talented diver who can perform the most difficult dives all over the world. He has mastered a series of the most difficult dives since 2012. The dives which he uses now in the competition and their difficult degrees are respectively Forward Somersaults-Tuck 109C(3.7), Back Somersaults-Tuck 207C(3.3), Reverse Somersaults-Tuck 307C(3.4), Inward Somersaults-Tuck 409C(4.1), Forward Somersaults 3 Twists-Pike 5156B(3.8) and Armstand Back 2 Soms Twists-Free 6245D(3.6). The total difficult degrees of his dives is 21.9, which is the highest in the world. Iván García is able to dive either the most difficult dive or the second most difficult dive in each of the six diving groups(forward, backward, reverse, inward, twisting and armstand groups). Among these dives, 409C is the most difficult dive being used around the world currently. In 2012 London Olympic Games, Iván García and his partner Germán Sánchez placed second in the synchronized platform—the best performance of Mexicans in synchronized diving. However, due to the difficulty of his dives, he cannot perform perfectly all the time.

Competitive history

Iván García has turned to be a professional diver in 2009 in the FINA World Aquatics Championships. From then on, representing

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, he has been competing for FINA World Junior Diving Championships, FINA World Aquatics Championships,

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, FINA Diving World Cup, FINA Diving World Series,

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and

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. He has won many medals of those competitions from 2010. He is an Olympic silver medalist in 2012 and a bronze medalist in YOG(

) in 2010. In the FINA Diving World Cup in 2014, he won his first medal in the individual 10m Platform in a world-class competition. What's more, he has won two gold medals in the Pan American Games in 2011, four gold medals in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2010, 2014, and 2018. ^@with Germán Sánchez
^#with Zuñiga Adan ^?with Jonathan Ruvalcaba
^*with Arantxa Chávez ^with Andreas Isaac Villarreal
^§Veracruz, MEX held two legs of 2010 FINA Diving World Series.
^† Guadalajara, MEX held two legs of 2013 FINA Diving World Series.
^% With different pairs.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia, Ivan 1993 births Mexican male divers Sportspeople from Guadalajara, Jalisco Divers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Divers at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic divers for Mexico Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in diving Olympic silver medalists for Mexico Living people World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Pan American Games gold medalists in diving Divers at the 2015 Pan American Games Summer World University Games medalists in diving Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Mexico Divers at the 2019 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in diving Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games 21st-century Mexican sportsmen