Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events. The competition took place at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre, from 22 to 30 September, comprising a total of 157 divers from 42 nations.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Xiong Ni  China	Fernando Platas  Mexico	Dmitri Sautin  Russia
10 metre platform	Tian Liang  China	Hu Jia  China	Dmitri Sautin  Russia
Synchronized 3 metre springboard	Xiong Ni and Xiao Hailiang  China	Dmitri Sautin and Alexandre Dobroskok  Russia
Synchronized 10 metre platform	Dmitri Sautin and Igor Lukashin  Russia	Hu Jia and Tian Liang  China	Jan Hempel and Heiko Meyer  Germany

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Fu Mingxia  China	Guo Jingjing  China	Dörte Lindner  Germany
10 metre platform	Laura Wilkinson  United States	Li Na  China	Anne Montminy  Canada
Synchronized 3 metre springboard	Vera Ilina and Yulia Pakhalina  Russia	Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing  China	Ganna Sorokina and Olena Zhupina  Ukraine
Synchronized 10 metre platform	Li Na and Sang Xue  China	Émilie Heymans and Anne Montminy  Canada	Rebecca Gilmore and Loudy Tourky  Australia

Medal table

1	China (CHN)	5	5	0	10
2	Russia (RUS)	2	1	2	5
3	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
4	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
5	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
6	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
	Germany (GER)	0	0	2	2
8	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

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

Argentina (1)  Armenia (1)  Australia (6)  Austria (3)  Azerbaijan (1)  Belarus (2)  Brazil (2)  Canada (7)  China (8)  Chinese Taipei (4)  Colombia (2)  Cuba (6)  Czech Republic (1)  Finland (2)

France (6)  Georgia (1)  Germany (8)  Great Britain (8)  Greece (5)  Hong Kong (1)  Hungary (4)  Indonesia (3)  Italy (5)  Japan (1)  Kazakhstan (5)  Malaysia (3)  Mexico (7)  North Korea (5)

Peru (1)  Philippines (2)  Puerto Rico (1)  Romania (3)  Russia (7)  South Korea (4)  Spain (5)  Sweden (1)  Switzerland (3)  Thailand (2)  Ukraine (9)  United States (7)  Venezuela (3)  Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• Diving at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Diving at the 1999 Pan American Games
• Diving at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 December 2006.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad - Volume Three: Results (pdf) (in English and French). Sydney, New South Wales: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). ISBN 0-9579616-1-8. OCLC 49687523. Retrieved 18 January 2007.