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Xiao Hailiang
Xiao Hailiang (; born January 24, 1977, in Wuhan, Hubei) is a Chinese people, Chinese Diving (sport), diver who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He became an Olympic champion in the 3m Springboard Synchronized event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. External links profile 1977 births Living people Chinese male divers Divers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic bronze medalists for China Olympic divers of China Olympic medalists in diving Asian Games medalists in diving Sportspeople from Wuhan Divers at the 1994 Asian Games Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Universiade medalists in diving Universiade gold medalists for China Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade 21st-century Chinese people 20th-century Chinese people {{PRChina-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diving At The Summer Olympics
Diving was first introduced in the official programme of the Summer Olympic Games at the 1904 Games of St. Louis and has been an Olympic sport since. It was known as "fancy diving" for the acrobatic stunts performed by divers during the dive (such as somersaults and twists). This discipline of Aquatics, along with swimming, synchronised swimming and water polo, is regulated and supervised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA), the international federation (IF) for aquatic sports. Summary History The first Olympic diving events were contested by men and consisted of a platform diving event ("fancy high diving") and also a plunge for distance event, which heralded victorious the diver who could reach the farthest underwater, while remaining motionless after a ground-level standing dive. At the 1908 Summer Olympics, men's springboard diving was added to the program replacing the plunge for distance, regarded as uninteresting. Women's diving debut happened at the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |