Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Diving at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Dates	26 July 1996 (1996-07-26) through 2 August 1996 (1996-08-02)
No. of events	4
Competitors	122 from 39 nations
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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. ^[1]

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	3	1	1	5
2	Russia	1	1	0	2
3	Germany	0	2	0	2
4	United States	0	0	2	2
5	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

Participating nations

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

Armenia  (2)   Australia  (7)   Austria  (2)   Azerbaijan  (1)   Belarus  (5)   Bolivia  (1)   Bulgaria  (1)   Canada  (6)   China  (7)   Chinese Taipei  (2)

Costa Rica  (1)   France  (1)   Georgia  (2)   Germany  (7)   Great Britain  (5)   Greece  (1)   Hong Kong  (1)   Hungary  (2)   Italy  (2)   Japan  (3)

Kazakhstan  (5)   Kuwait  (2)   Mexico  (5)   North Korea  (3)   Puerto Rico  (2)   Romania  (3)   Russia  (7)   South Korea  (4)   Spain  (5)   Sri Lanka  (1)

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

References

1. "Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 May 2020.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

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.