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Freediving
Freediving (breath-hold, apnea diving): diving on one breath without apparatus, for recreation, spearfishing, or AIDA/CMAS competition. Key facts: diving response bradycardia, up to 22-fold lung compression, shallow-water blackout risk, eight competitive disciplines.
George Sheldon
George Herbert Sheldon (1874-1907), American St. Louis physician and diver, first Olympic diving champion, winning the 1904 springboard gold amid a German judging protest; also 1905 AAU champion; died of heart disease at 33.
Georgia Coleman
Georgia Coleman (1912–1940), American Olympic diver for the Los Angeles Athletic Club; four Olympic diving medals including 1932 springboard gold, first woman to compete a 2½ somersault, 11 AAU titles.
Greg Louganis
Greg Louganis (born 1960, San Diego) is an American diver, four-time Olympic gold medalist and the first man to sweep 3m springboard and 10m platform at consecutive Games (1984, 1988), famous for the 1988 Seoul head-strike comeback.
Greta Johansson
Greta Johansson (Anna Teresia Margareta Johansson, later Brandsten, 1895–1978), Swedish diver and swimmer of Stockholms KK; won the first Olympic women's diving gold at Stockholm 1912, first Swedish female Olympic champion, later Stanford diving instructor in California.
Guo Jingjing
Guo Jingjing (郭晶晶), Chinese diver born 1981 in Baoding, won four Olympic golds and two silvers on 3 m springboard and ten World Championship golds, then became a World Aquatics referee.
Harold Smith
Harold Smith, "Dutch Smith" (Edwin Harold Smith, 1909–1958), American Olympic diver for the Los Angeles AC; 1932 platform gold and springboard silver, fourth in springboard in 1928, later pro aquacade performer and coach.
He Zi
He Zi (何姿), Chinese springboard diver born 1990 in Guangxi. Olympic gold in 3 m synchro with Wu Minxia (London 2012) plus two 3 m springboard silvers; four world titles; retired 2017.
Helen Meany
Helen Meany (1904–1991), American diver, first U.S. woman diver at three Olympics; 5th in plain high 1920 and 1924, 1928 Amsterdam springboard gold; 13–17 AAU titles; ended by Miami Beach water show.
Helen Wainwright
Helen Wainwright (Helen E. Wainwright-Stelling, 1906-1965), American diver and swimmer; Olympic silver in 1920 springboard diving and 1924 400 m freestyle; 1,500 m freestyle world record holder.
High diving
High diving: acrobatic dives from 20 m (women) or 27 m (men) platforms or cliffs, feet-first entry, governed by World Aquatics; a World Championships discipline since 2013, not yet Olympic.
Hjalmar Johansson
Hjalmar Johansson (Carl August Hjalmar Johansson, 1874–1957), Swedish diver and swimmer; 1908 Olympic platform diving gold medalist, 1912 plain high diving silver medalist, FINA founding contributor, ISHOF inductee 1982.
Hu Jia
Hu Jia (胡佳, born 1983, Wuhan) is a Chinese platform diver, 2004 Olympic 10m platform champion and double Sydney 2000 silver medalist; distinct from the jailed human-rights activist of the same name.
Huo Liang
Huo Liang (火亮), born 1989 in Shanghai, Chinese platform diver; Olympic gold in men's synchronized 10m platform with Lin Yue at Beijing 2008, three straight World Championship synchro platform titles 2007–2011.
Igor Lukashin
Igor Lukashin (Игорь Владимирович Лукашин), Russian platform diver born 1979 in Penza; won synchronized 10 m platform gold with Dmitry Sautin at Sydney 2000 (365.04), was seventh individually, and took 1998 world and European championship medals. Not the hockey player born 1981.
Ilya Zakharov
Ilya Zakharov (Илья Леонидович Захаров), Russian diver born 1991 in St. Petersburg; 2012 Olympic 3m springboard champion and synchronized silver medallist, 2017 world synchronized 3m champion with Kuznetsov.
Ingrid Gulbin Engel Kramer
Ingrid Gulbin Engel Kramer (Ingrid Krämer, born 1943, Dresden) is an East German diver with three Olympic golds and one silver: double champion at Rome 1960, springboard gold and platform silver at Tokyo 1964.
Irina Kalinina
Irina Kalinina (Ирина Владимировна Калинина), Soviet diver born 1959 in Penza, won 3 m springboard gold at Moscow 1980 and world titles in 1975 and 1978; ISHOF inductee, mother of Nadezhda Bazhina.
Jack Laugher
Jack Laugher (born 1995, Harrogate) is a British springboard diver, City of Leeds club, and Great Britain's first Olympic diving champion, winning 3m synchro gold with Chris Mears at Rio 2016 plus silver, and bronzes at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
Jacques Mayol
Jacques Mayol (1927-2001), French freediver called the Dolphin Man, first person to reach 100 m on one breath (1976, Elba), later 105 m; rival of Enzo Maiorca and inspiration for The Big Blue.
Jennifer Chandler
Jennifer Chandler (Jennifer Kay Bellamy Chandler, born 1959) is an American diver who won 3m springboard gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, 1975 Pan Am gold, 1978 Worlds bronze, and retired at 21 after back injuries.
Joaquin Capilla
Joaquín Capilla Pérez, Mexican platform and springboard diver, Olympic champion at Melbourne 1956; won four Olympic medals (1948–1956), the most by a Mexican Olympian as of 2010, plus Pan American and Central American and Caribbean Games golds.
Ken Sitzberger
Ken Sitzberger (Kenneth Robert Sitzberger, 1945-1984), American diver, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in men's 3 m springboard (159.90 points), 1963 Pan Am bronze, five-time NCAA champion at Indiana, later ABC diving commentator.
Klaus Dibiasi
Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver (born 1947, Hall in Tirol, Austria), won 10m platform gold at 1968, 1972, 1976 Olympics after 1964 silver; only diver with three successive Olympic titles in one event.
Lao Lishi
Lao Lishi (劳丽诗), Chinese diver born 1987 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong; 2004 Athens Olympic gold in 10m synchronized platform with Li Ting and silver in individual 10m platform; 2003 world synchro champion; retired 2010.
Laura Wilkinson
Laura Wilkinson (Laura Ann Wilkinson, born 1977, Houston, Texas) is the American diver who won 10m platform gold at Sydney 2000 on a broken foot, the first US woman to do so since 1964, and later won the 2004 World Cup and 2005 Worlds.
Li Na (olympedia 90556)
Li Na (李娜, born 1984, Hefei, Anhui) is a Chinese platform diver, Olympedia athlete 90556, who won synchronized platform gold with Sang Xue and 10 m platform silver at Sydney 2000; distinct from the fencer and tennis Li Na.
Lin Yue
Lin Yue (林跃), Chinese platform diver born 1991 in Chaozhou, Guangdong; two Olympic golds in men's synchronized 10m platform (Beijing 2008 with Huo Liang, Rio 2016 with Chen Aisen), sixth in 2012 individual platform, three world titles.
Liu Huixia
Liu Huixia (刘蕙瑕), Chinese platform diver born 1997 in Daye, Hubei; 2016 Olympic gold and 2013, 2015 world titles in women's synchronized 10 m platform with Chen Ruolin; 2014 FINA Female Diver of the Year.
Lou Kuehn
Lou "Hap" Kuehn (Louis Edward Kuehn, 1901-1981), American springboard diver; won gold at Antwerp 1920 (675.40 points) in a US sweep over Pinkston and Balbach; later an Oregon lawyer and court clerk.