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  1. 1Pat McCormick (diver)Pat McCormick (diver)Born 12 May 1930McCormick won both springboard and platform gold at Helsinki 1952 and again at Melbourne 1956, the first diver to complete the double-double. She trained dives then considered too dangerous for women, and won with them because her control on entry was as good as her difficulty. Melbourne came just…0i
  2. 2Klaus DibiasiKlaus DibiasiBorn 6 Oct 1947Dibiasi is still the only diver to win the same Olympic event three times running, platform gold in 1968, 1972 and 1976, after silver in 1964. Italy had no proper diving facilities, and he trained outdoors in all seasons, yet his entries were famously clean and consistent across all three Games.…0i
  3. 3Greg LouganisGreg LouganisBorn 29 Jan 1960Louganis won springboard and platform gold at both Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988, and in Los Angeles he became the first diver to score more than 700 points in a platform final. The Seoul springboard win came after he struck his head on the board in the preliminaries and returned to dive with…0i
  4. 4Gao Min (diver)Gao Min (diver)Born 28 Sept 1970Gao won Olympic springboard gold at Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992 and went unbeaten in major springboard competitions for years, the first Chinese diver to dominate the board as completely as Louganis dominated the men's events. She was the first woman to score over 600 points on springboard, a…0
  5. 5Fu MingxiaFu MingxiaBorn 16 Aug 1978Fu won the 1991 world platform title aged 12, a result that later led the sport to raise its minimum age, then Olympic platform gold at Barcelona 1992. She went on to win springboard and platform at Atlanta 1996 and springboard again at Sydney 2000. Winning on both the 10m tower and the 3m board,…0
  6. 6Dmitri SautinDmitri SautinBorn 15 Mar 1974Sautin won Olympic medals at five consecutive Games from 1992 to 2008, eight in all, including platform gold at Atlanta 1996 and synchronised springboard gold at Sydney 2000. He was among the first to perform some of the highest-tariff dives of the 1990s on both board and tower, and his longevity…0i
  7. 7Guo JingjingGuo JingjingBorn 15 Oct 1981Guo was the dominant springboard diver of the 2000s, winning individual and synchronised 3m gold at both Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 and ten world titles. Springboard rewards timing with the board's flex more than raw height, and her hurdle and take-off were so consistent that she rarely needed…0i
  8. 8Wu MinxiaWu MinxiaBorn 10 Nov 1985Wu won synchronised 3m gold at four straight Olympics, from Athens 2004 to Rio 2016, the only diver to win the same event at four Games, and added individual springboard gold at London 2012. Synchro is judged on matching timing and entry as well as each diver's execution, and her ability to mirror…0i
  9. 9Matthew MitchamMatthew MitchamMitcham's final dive in the Beijing 2008 platform final, a back two and a half somersault with two and a half twists, was one of the most difficult on the list and earned four perfect 10s, at the time the highest-scoring single dive in Olympic history. It took him from second to gold and stopped…0i
  10. 10Alexandre DespatieAlexandre DespatieDespatie won Commonwealth platform gold aged 13 in 1998, then became one of the few divers to win world titles on both platform and springboard. His two Olympic springboard silvers, in Athens and Beijing, came against Chinese divers with higher tariffs, and he stayed close through near-faultless…0i