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Diving at the Summer Olympics
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IOC Discipline Code
| DIV
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Governing body
| FINA
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Events
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Diving
was first introduced in the official programme of the
Summer Olympic Games
at the
1904 Games of St. Louis
and has been an
Olympic sport
since. It was known as "fancy diving"
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for the acrobatic stunts performed by divers during the dive (such as
somersaults
and twists). This discipline of Aquatics, along with
swimming
,
synchronised swimming
and
water polo
, is regulated and supervised by the
International Swimming Federation
(FINA), the international federation (IF) for aquatic sports.
Summary
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History
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The first Olympic diving events were contested by men and consisted of a platform diving event ("fancy high diving") and also a
plunge for distance
event, which heralded victorious the diver who could reach the farthest underwater, while remaining motionless after a ground-level standing dive. At the
1908 Summer Olympics
, men's springboard diving was added to the program replacing the plunge for distance, regarded as uninteresting.
[2]
Women's diving debut happened at the
1912 Summer Olympics
in the platform event and was expanded to springboard diving at the
1920 Summer Olympics
. A parallel platform diving event for men, called "plain high diving", was presented at the Games of the V Olympiad. No acrobatic moves were allowed, only a simple straight dive off the platform.
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It was last contested at the
1924 Summer Olympics
after which it was merged with "fancy high diving" into one competition renamed "highboard diving" (or just "high diving").
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By the time of the
1996 Summer Olympics
, the diving events were exactly the same as in
1928
(2 men's and 2 women's events). However, four years later in
Sydney
, the inclusion of a
synchronized diving
variant for the springboard and platform events elevated the list up to eight events (4 men's and 4 women's events).
Another important change to the sport occurred at the
1984 Summer Olympics
, when
China
first competed, after boycotting the previous games due to the
political status of Taiwan
.
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China
has become the dominant diving power and accumulated 47 gold medals since 1984.
Medal table
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Total medal count 1904?2020:
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Events
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Men's
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Event
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96
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04
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08
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12
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20
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24
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48
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56
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60
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68
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72
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76
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80
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84
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88
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Events
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Women's
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Nations
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The numbers in each cell indicate the number of divers that nation sent to that Games.
See also
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Notes
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References
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Africa
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- CANA
- African Championship
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Americas
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Asia
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Europe
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Oceania
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- OSA
- Oceanian Championship
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International
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Summer sports
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Winter sports
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2024 addition
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2026 addition
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2028 additions
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Past sports
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Demonstration sports
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Unofficial sports
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