Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Dates 22 – 30 September 2000
Medal Events 8

The Olympic diving program had been standardized since 1928, with men and women both contesting a 3-metre springboard and 10-metre platform event. In 2000, synchronized events for men and women on both springboard and platform were added, doubling the size of the Olympic diving program. This was purportedly done because television asked for more diving events, as it was an attractive event to its viewers. However, examples of synchronized diving exist from 1939 performed by Olympians Harold Smith of the USA and Farid Simaika of Egypt.

The Sydney Aquatic Centre, which also hosted swimming and some water polo matches, was the site for diving in 2000. Chinese divers won five of the eight events in 2000, and 10 of 24 medals, or actually 10 of a possible 12, since only one team from a nation was allowed in synchro, and two divers from each nation in the individual events.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Springboard, Men Olympic 25 – 26 September 2000 49 35
Platform, Men Olympic 29 – 30 September 2000 42 28
Synchronized Springboard, Men Olympic 28 September 2000 16 8
Synchronized Platform, Men Olympic 23 September 2000 16 8
Springboard, Women Olympic 27 – 28 September 2000 43 28
Platform, Women Olympic 22 – 24 September 2000 40 24
Synchronized Springboard, Women Olympic 23 September 2000 16 8
Synchronized Platform, Women Olympic 28 September 2000 16 8
157 (80/77) 42 (38/33)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Springboard, Men Xiong NiCHN Fernando PlatasMEX Dmitry SautinRUS
Platform, Men Tian LiangCHN Hu JiaCHN Dmitry SautinRUS
Synchronized Springboard, Men People's Republic of ChinaCHN Russian FederationRUS AustraliaAUS
Synchronized Platform, Men Russian FederationRUS People's Republic of ChinaCHN GermanyGER
Springboard, Women Fu MingxiaCHN Guo JingjingCHN Dörte LindnerGER
Platform, Women Laura WilkinsonUSA Li NaCHN Anne MontminyCAN
Synchronized Springboard, Women Russian FederationRUS People's Republic of ChinaCHN UkraineUKR
Synchronized Platform, Women People's Republic of ChinaCHN CanadaCAN AustraliaAUS

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
People's Republic of China CHN 5 5 0 10
Russian Federation RUS 2 1 2 5
United States USA 1 0 0 1
Canada CAN 0 1 1 2
Mexico MEX 0 1 0 1
Australia AUS 0 0 2 2
Germany GER 0 0 2 2
Ukraine UKR 0 0 1 1