Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Montréal Olympic Pool, from 19 to 27 July (July 24, rest day), comprising 82 divers from 22 nations.

Medal summary

The events are named according to the International Olympic Committee labelling, but they appeared on the official report as "springboard diving" and "platform diving", respectively.[1]

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 metre springboard
Phil Boggs
 United States
Giorgio Cagnotto
 Italy
Aleksandr Kosenkov
 Soviet Union
10 metre platform
Klaus Dibiasi
 Italy
Greg Louganis
 United States
Vladimir Aleynik
 Soviet Union

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 metre springboard
Jennifer Chandler
 United States
Christa Köhler
 East Germany
Cynthia Potter
 United States
10 metre platform
Elena Vaytsekhovskaya
 Soviet Union
Ulrika Knape
 Sweden
Deborah Wilson
 United States

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 2 1 2 5
2  Italy (ITA) 1 1 0 2
3  Soviet Union (URS) 1 0 2 3
4  East Germany (GDR) 0 1 0 1
 Sweden (SWE) 0 1 0 1

Participating nations

Here are listed the nations that were represented in the diving events and, in brackets, the number of national competitors.

See also

Notes

  1. Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIst Olympiad, Montréal 1976 (COJO 76), p. 441.

References

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