Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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.

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

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Xiong Ni  China	Yu Zhuocheng  China	Mark Lenzi  United States
10 m platform	Dmitri Sautin  Russia	Jan Hempel  Germany	Xiao Hailiang  China

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Fu Mingxia  China	Irina Lashko  Russia	Annie Pelletier  Canada
10 m platform	Fu Mingxia  China	Annika Walter  Germany	Mary Ellen Clark  United States

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	3	1	1	5
2	Russia (RUS)	1	1	0	2
3	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
4	United States (USA)	0	0	2	2
5	Canada (CAN)	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

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.