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Linda Lee Cooper (born July 19, 1944, in Loma Linda, California) is the maiden name for Linda Tiger, an American platform diver who represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
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Linda Lee Cooper (born July 19, 1944, in Loma Linda, California) is the maiden name for Linda Tiger, an American platform diver who represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, from 11 to 18 October, comprising 80 divers from 20 nations.
The diving competitions at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City featured four events . It was one of three aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, and water polo.
Mark Daniel Gangloff is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and former world record-holder.
This page shows the results of the Diving Competition for men and women at the 1963 Pan American Games, held from April 20 to May 5, 1963 in São Paulo, Brazil. There were two events, for both men and women.
Robert David "Bob" Webster is a retired American diver who won the 10 m platform event at every competition he entered between 1960 and 1964, including the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and 1963 Pan American Games. He later became a diving coach at the University of Minnesota, Princeton University, and the University of Alabama. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1970 and the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1989.
Bernard Charles Wrightson is a former Olympic and Pan American Games gold medalist for the United States. The Denver, Colorado, native was primarily a three-meter springboard diver, but he also won a national AAU championship on the ten-meter platform. Between 1964 and 1968, Bernie Wrightson captured a total of eight USA Open titles in the sport of diving. He represented US at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he received a gold medal in Springboard Diving.
Ingrid Gulbin is a diver from East Germany, a multiple Olympic champion who won Olympic gold medals in both springboard and platform.
Paola Milagros Espinosa Sánchez is a Mexican diver and represented Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she was her national team's flagbearer, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
The Indiana State Sycamores are the NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic teams of Indiana State University. Since the 1977–78 academic year, Indiana State has been a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The Indiana State football team has competed in Division I FCS since the 1982 season, and has been a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) since it was spun off from the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference (Gateway) when the latter league merged into the MVC in 1992. Past conference memberships include the Indiana College Athletic League (1895–1922), the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference (1922–1950), the Indiana Collegiate Conference (1950–1968) and the Midwestern Conference (1970–1972). The women's teams were Gateway members from the league's 1982 founding until its absorption by the MVC. In 1986, a year after the Gateway took on football as its only men's sport, the Sycamores football team joined that conference.
Robert Edward Townsend, Jr. is an American former competition swimmer, Pan American Games gold medalist, and former world record-holder.
Paula Jean Myers-Pope was an American diver and four-time Olympic medalist in three Summer Olympic Games.
Barbara Ellen Talmage is an American diver. She won a gold medal in springboard diving at the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo and competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Ann Stewart Peterson is an American diver who competed in the 10 meter platform event. She won bronze medals at both the 1967 Pan American Games and 1968 Olympics. Peterson won the Amateur Athletic Union championships and the U.S. Olympic trials in 1968.
Iván Alejandro García Navarro 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.
Richard Walter "Rick" Gilbert is an American former diver and coach who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He won two World University (FISU) Games gold medals, was silver medalist on 3-meter in the 1963 Pan American Games and amassed five Big Ten and seven national titles while at Indiana University. He was a six-time NCAA All-American and four-time AAU All-American and won one NCAA and six national AAU titles. Gilbert was on the 1968 United States Olympic Team that competed in Mexico City. After Mexico City, he became coach of diving at Cornell University, where he coached 39 years until his retirement in 2007. Gilbert was named Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Women's Diving Coach of the Year in 1991, 1992 and 1993 and Men's Diving Coach of the Year in 1984. He was chairman of the NCAA Diving Rules Sub-Committee from 1976 to 1980. He was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1973, the Indiana University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997, and into the Pennsylvania Aquatics Hall of Fame in 2019.
Linda Kathleen Murphy is an American former volleyball player. She played for the United States national team at the 1963 Pan American Games, the 1964 Summer Olympics, and the 1967 Pan American Games. She was born in Glendale, California.
The diving competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima took place from August 1 to 5, 2019 at the Aquatics Centre. It was one of four aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, water polo, and artistic swimming.
Louis Vitucci is an American diver. He competed in the men's 10 metre platform event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Gabriela Belem Agúndez Garcia is a Mexican diver. She represented Mexico at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in the individual 10 metre platform and synchronized 10 metre platform, winning a bronze medal.
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