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Luo Yutong
Luo Yutong (罗玉通), Chinese diver born 1985 in Guangdong; 2012 London Olympic gold in men's synchronized 3 m springboard with Qin Kai (477.00), world champion 1 m springboard 2007 and synchronized springboard 2011.
Marjorie Gestring
Marjorie Gestring (1922-1992), American diver, youngest woman Olympic champion: won 1936 Berlin 3m springboard gold at 13 years 267-268 days with 89.27 points; eight AAU titles; 1948 comeback failed.
Mark Lenzi
Mark Edward Lenzi (1968-2012), American springboard diver, 1992 Barcelona Olympic 3m springboard gold medalist and 1996 Atlanta bronze medalist; Indiana University NCAA champion and first diver to score 100 points on a single dive.
Marshall Wayne
Marshall Wayne (1912-1999), American Olympic diver, won 1936 Berlin gold in 10-meter platform and silver in springboard, the only double men's diving medalist there; later an Air Force colonel and Pan Am pilot.
Martina Jäschke
Martina Jäschke (born 1960, Merseburg or Halle) is a German former diver for East Germany; Olympic gold, 10 m platform, Moscow 1980 (596.250 points), fifth in springboard, 1978 world silver.
Matt Mitcham
Matt Mitcham (Matthew John Mitcham, b. 1988), Australian diver, won 10m platform gold at Beijing 2008 with 112.10, the highest-scoring single dive in Olympic history; first openly gay Olympic champion.
Matty Lee
Matty Lee, full name Matthew Lee, is a retired English diver from Leeds who won Olympic gold with Tom Daley in the 10-meter synchro at Tokyo 2020.
Mickey Galitzen
Mickey Galitzen, full name Michael Riley Galitzen, was an American springboard and platform diver who won a medal in all four Olympic events he entered, 1928 and 1932.
Micki King
Micki King (Maxine Joyce King, later Hogue), American diver born 1944 in Pontiac, Michigan; 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist in 3-meter springboard after fracturing her arm on her ninth dive at Mexico City 1968; retired Air Force colonel and first woman faculty member at a U.S. military academy.
Milena Duchkova
Milena Duchkova (Milena Duchková), born 1952 in Prague, is a Czech diver who won 10 m platform gold at the 1968 Olympics and silver in 1972 for Czechoslovakia.
Natalia Molchanova
Natalia Molchanova (Наталья Молчанова, 1962–2015), Russian freediver called the queen of freediving; 41 AIDA world records, 23 world titles, first woman to 100 m CWT and 9:02 static apnea; vanished off Formentera in 2015.
Nikos Siranidis
Nikos Siranidis (Νικόλαος Σιρανίδης), Greek diver born 1976 in Athens; with Thomas Bimis won gold in synchronized 3 m springboard at Athens 2004, Greece's first diving medal and first aquatics medal since 1896; competed 1996, 2000, 2004; retired to coach in 2006.
Paul Gunther
Paul Gunther (Johann Wilhelm Paul Günther, 1882-1959), German diver, 1912 Stockholm Olympic springboard gold medalist ahead of Luber, Behrens, and Zürner; distinct from the 2007-born German decathlete of the same name.
Pauline Ducruet
Pauline Ducruet (Pauline Grace Maguy Ducruet, born 1994) is a Monegasque fashion designer and former competitive diver, daughter of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, who dived for Monaco at the 2010 Youth Olympics and founded the label Alter.
Pete Desjardins
Pete Desjardins (Ulise Joseph Desjardins, 1907-1985), Canadian-born American Stanford diver; 1928 Olympic gold in springboard and platform after 1924 springboard silver, amid the Simaika scoring controversy; 13 AAU titles.
Phil Boggs
Phil Boggs (Philip George Boggs, 1949-1990), American diver, 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medalist in 3 m springboard and the only man to win that event at three World Championships (1973, 1975, 1978); later a lawyer and US Diving president.
Qin Kai
Qin Kai (秦凯), Chinese springboard diver born 1986 in Xi'an, won Olympic synchronized 3m springboard gold in 2008 and 2012 plus bronze 2016, and holds five straight world titles in that event.
Qiu Bo
Qiu Bo (邱波), Chinese platform diver born 1993, three-time world 10m champion 2011-2015 and 2012 Olympic silver medalist, but never Olympic gold, sixth at Rio 2016.
Quan Hongchan
Quan Hongchan (全红婵), born 2007, Chinese 10m platform diver with three Olympic golds; Tokyo 2020 record 466.20, Paris 2024 individual and synchronized titles with Chen Yuxi.
Ren Qian
Ren Qian (任茜), born 2001 in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, is a Chinese diver who won the women's 10 m platform gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics at 15.
Sammy Lee
Sammy Lee (1920–2016) was an American platform diver and otolaryngologist, the first Asian-American man to win Olympic gold, in 10-meter platform diving at the 1948 and 1952 Games.
Sang Xue
Sang Xue (桑雪), Chinese diver born 1984 in Tianjin; won women's synchronized 10m platform gold with Li Na at Sydney 2000 (345.12 pts) and the 2001 Fukuoka world title; 4th in individual platform. Not the fencer Tan Xue.
Scuba diving
Scuba diving is underwater diving with a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, independent of surface supply. Developed via Cousteau and Gagnan's 1940s Aqua-Lung; recreational limit 40 m (130 ft); main risks are decompression sickness and nitrogen narcosis.
Shi Tingmao
Shi Tingmao (施廷懋), born 1991 in Chongqing, Chinese diver; won four Olympic golds in 3m springboard and synchro at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, plus eight world titles, matching Guo Jingjing's double-double.
Skippy Browning
Skippy Browning (David Greig Browning Jr., 1931–1956), American springboard diver, 1952 Helsinki Olympic 3m gold medalist, eight-time AAU and four-time NCAA champion, killed in a Navy jet crash training for 1956.
Snorkeling
Snorkeling: surface swimming with a mask, snorkel, and fins, no certification required. About 27 million snorkelers worldwide; drowning, often cardiac, is the main risk.
Stefanie Clausen
Stefanie Clausen (Anna Stefanie Nanny Fryland Clausen, 1900–1981), Danish diver, won plain high diving gold at Antwerp 1920, the first Danish woman with Olympic gold and Denmark's only diving champion.
Sue Gossick
Sue Gossick (Susanne Gossick), American springboard diver born 1947 in Chicago; 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold medalist in women's 3-meter springboard, fourth at Tokyo 1964, 1967 Pan Am champion, ISHOF inductee 1988.
Sun Shuwei
Sun Shuwei (孙淑伟, born 1976) is a Chinese former diver who won the men's 10 meter platform gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, China's first male platform champion.
Sylvie Bernier
Sylvie Bernier (born 1964, Sainte-Foy, Quebec), Canadian diver; won 3m springboard gold at Los Angeles 1984 with 530.70, Canada's first and only Olympic diving gold and first Quebec woman Olympic champion.