Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Diving at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Aquatic Centre
Date	22–30 September 2000
No. of events	8
Competitors	157 from 42 nations
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events. The competition took place at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre, from 22 to 30 September, comprising a total of 157 divers from 42 nations. ^[1]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Xiong Ni   China	Fernando Platas   Mexico	Dmitri Sautin   Russia
10 m platform details	Tian Liang   China	Hu Jia   China	Dmitri Sautin   Russia
Synchronized 3 m springboard details	Xiong Ni and Xiao Hailiang   China	Dmitri Sautin and Alexandre Dobroskok   Russia	Robert Newbery and Dean Pullar   Australia
Synchronized 10 m platform details	Dmitri Sautin and Igor Lukashin   Russia	Hu Jia and Tian Liang   China	Jan Hempel and Heiko Meyer   Germany

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Fu Mingxia   China	Guo Jingjing   China	Dörte Lindner   Germany
10 m platform details	Laura Wilkinson   United States	Li Na   China	Anne Montminy   Canada
Synchronized 3 m springboard details	Vera Ilina and Yulia Pakhalina   Russia	Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing   China	Ganna Sorokina and Olena Zhupina   Ukraine
Synchronized 10 m platform details	Li Na and Sang Xue   China	Émilie Heymans and Anne Montminy   Canada	Rebecca Gilmore and Loudy Tourky   Australia

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	5	0	10
2	Russia	2	1	2	5
3	United States	1	0	0	1
4	Canada	0	1	1	2
5	Mexico	0	1	0	1
6	Australia	0	0	2	2
	Germany	0	0	2	2
8	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

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

Argentina  (1)   Armenia  (1)   Australia  (6)   Austria  (3)   Azerbaijan  (1)   Belarus  (2)   Brazil  (2)   Canada  (7)   China  (8)   Chinese Taipei  (4)   Colombia  (2)   Cuba  (6)   Czech Republic  (1)   Finland  (2)

France  (6)   Georgia  (1)   Germany  (8)   Great Britain  (8)   Greece  (5)   Hong Kong  (1)   Hungary  (4)   Indonesia  (3)   Italy  (5)   Japan  (1)   Kazakhstan  (5)   Malaysia  (3)   Mexico  (7)   North Korea  (5)

Peru  (1)   Philippines  (2)   Puerto Rico  (1)   Romania  (3)   Russia  (7)   South Korea  (4)   Spain  (5)   Sweden  (1)   Switzerland  (3)   Thailand  (2)   Ukraine  (9)   United States  (7)   Venezuela  (3)   Zimbabwe  (1)

See also

• Diving at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Diving at the 1999 Pan American Games
• Diving at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

References

1. "Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 May 2020.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 19 December 2006.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad - Volume Three: Results (PDF) (in English and French). Sydney, New South Wales: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). ISBN   0-9579616-1-8. OCLC   49687523 . Retrieved 18 January 2007.