Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, from 26 July to 2 August, comprising a total of 122 divers from 39 nations.

Diving
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
VenueGeorgia Tech Aquatic Center
Dates26 July 1996 (1996-07-26) through
2 August 1996 (1996-08-02)
No. of events4
Competitors122 from 39 nations
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2000 →

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard
details
Xiong Ni
 China
Yu Zhuocheng
 China
Mark Lenzi
 United States
10 m platform
details
Dmitri Sautin
 Russia
Jan Hempel
 Germany
Xiao Hailiang
 China

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard
details
Fu Mingxia
 China
Irina Lashko
 Russia
Annie Pelletier
 Canada
10 m platform
details
Fu Mingxia
 China
Annika Walter
 Germany
Mary Ellen Clark
 United States

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China3115
2 Russia1102
3 Germany0202
4 United States0022
5 Canada0011
Totals (5 entries)44412

Participating nations

Here are listed the nations that were represented in the diving events and, in brackets, the number of national competitors.

  •  Sweden (3)
  •  Switzerland (1)
  •  Tajikistan (2)
  •  Thailand (2)
  •  Ukraine (6)
  •  United States (8)
  •  Uruguay (1)
  •  Venezuela (1)
  •  FR Yugoslavia (2)
  •  Zimbabwe (1)

See also

  • Diving at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
  • Diving at the 1995 Pan American Games
  • Diving at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

Sources

  • "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 December 2006.
  • The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) (1997). The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games - Volume III: The Competition Results (pdf) (in English and French). Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers. ISBN 1-56145-169-X. OCLC 36994823. Retrieved 12 January 2007.

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