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Gabriela Agundez Garcia of Team Mexico in midair during a dive at the Women's 10m Platform Semifinal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with the Olympic rings visible below.
Grace Reid and Katherine Torrance of Team Great Britain perform synchronized dives from springboards at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Patricia McCormick of the United States Olympic team in a striped swimsuit, tightly tucked mid-dive during the springboard event at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.
Olympic diver Guo Jingjing
Watch: A forward dive
Watch: A back dive
Watch: A reverse somersault dive
Watch: An inward somersault dive
Watch: An armstand somersault dive
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Quan Hongchan
Quan Hongchan
Chinese diver
Wu Minxia
Wu Minxia
Chinese diver
Olympic diver Guo Jingjing
Guo Jingjing
Chinese diver
Shi Tingmao poses with a gold medal for the women's 3-meter springboard event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Shi Tingmao
Chinese diver
Diver Sammy Lee is presented with a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics in London
Sammy Lee
American diver
Aileen Riggin, 1922.
Aileen Riggin
American swimmer and diver
Pat McCormick in midair
Pat McCormick
American diver
American diver Greg Louganis smiles with his hands on his hips, wearing two Olympic gold medals around his neck.
Greg Louganis
American diver
Pete Desjardins (left) and Johnny Weissmuller returning to the United States after the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam
Pete Desjardins
American diver
Fu Mingxia
Fu Mingxia
Chinese athlete
Olympic gold medalist Victoria Draves
Victoria Draves
American diver
Champion diver Georgia Coleman (center) at the 1932 Olympic Games
Georgia Coleman
American diver
Olympic diver Klaus Dibiasi
Klaus Dibiasi
Italian athlete
Olympic diving champion Phil Boggs
Phil Boggs
American diver
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Al White
American athlete
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