Diving

A short 20-minute documentary on Division III RIT diving coach Cliff Devries will air on ESPN tonight, Tuesday October 29, at 9:00 p.m. EST. The documentary centers on Devries' annual dive of the 3m springboard that he does on his birthday, which is tomorrow October 30. Devries is currently in his 1...

Greg Louganis is widely considered as one of the greatest divers in the history of the sport. He won four gold medals and one silver across three Olympic Games (without including the 1980 Olympic boycott). Louganis was the first (and only) male diver to ever win both springboard and platform diving ...

Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland completed the perfect season in Bilbao, Spain, winning her seventh stop in a row to become the first Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series diver ever to go unbeaten all year. On the men’s platform, it was the familiar sight of England’s Gary Hunt celebrating in front of 27,...

USA Diving Inc. announces that it will be moving its national office from Indianapolis, Ind. to Colorado Springs, Colo. in the fourth quarter of this year. The move to Colorado Springs will allow USA Diving to take advantage of many of the benefits of being located in the hometown of the United Stat...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. USA Diving's High Performance Squad is made up of divers who exhibit the most potential, skill, and determination to become future U.S. Olympic Team Members. The squad is categorized into three tiers. Tier One includes the Nations' most accomplished diver...

By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World College Intern. There’s skydiving, platform diving, cliff diving, and there's ...dog diving? Sure enough, Diving Dogs - also sometimes referred to as dock jumping - is a nationally recognized sport. According to North America Diving Dogs description, the event goes s...

"I was thrown into the deep end," joked Rhiannan Iffland about the beginning of her cliff diving career. The 27 year old from New Castle, Australia dove in her first cliff diving competition in 2016. She came in last place by over one hundred points. Since then, Iffland has competed in 17 Red Bull c...

Andrew Capobianco (Holly Springs, N.C./Bloomington, Ind.) won his second bronze medal at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games after teaming up with Michael Hixon (Amherst, Mass./Bloomington, Ind.) for third in synchronized 3-meter Saturday in Lima, Peru. Delaney Schnell (Tucson, Ariz.) and Amy Magaña (I...

A day after pairing for silver in women’s synchronized 3-meter, Sarah Bacon (Indianapolis, Ind./Minneapolis, Minn.) and Brooke Schultz (Fayetteville, Ark.) won gold and silver in the individual 1-meter contest Friday at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Also on Friday, Steele Johnson (Carmel, In...

Alik Sarkisian has been hired as head diving coach for the UNLV men's and women's swimming & diving programs, Rebel head coach Ben Loorz announced Thursday. "I am excited to be here at UNLV, says Sarkisian. "It's going to take time to adapt to a new place with new weather conditions, especially afte...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. Men's 27-meter, the final diving event of the 18th FINA World Championships, took place this morning, July 24, 2019, in Gwangju, South Korea. In a thrilling finish, British diver Gary Hunt overtook American Steve LoBue in the fourth and final round. It wa...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor.  Rhiannan Iffland, the most decorated woman in high diving history, defended her world championship title this morning, July 23, 2019 in an extremely close competition. Despite her accolades, the Australian diver did not command the competition like one m...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. Today, on the eighth and final day of springboard and platform diving, mixed three-meter synchro and men's ten-meter platform concluded the diving competition at the 2019 FINA World Championships. Mixed synchro, a non-Olympic event where teams are made up...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor  On the seventh day at the FINA World Championships in the women's three-meter final event, the top 5 divers stayed in the same position they started in for the whole competition. All the top spots were filled with consistent, veteran divers. Shi Tingmao, ...

China secured the top two spots in the three-meter diving event during an exciting final round on the sixth day of the World Championships. The Chinese women accomplished the same feat yesterday. Men's three-meter was the only event today, and Xie Siyi took home the gold medal. Xie entered finals ti...

China's young platform divers swept the top of the podium on the fifth day of diving competition at the World Championships, and the American women's medal drought in Olympic events is officially over. Women's 10-meter was the only final event to take place today, the fifth day of competition. Chen ...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. Only one finals event took place on day five of the FINA World Championships: the mixed three-meter and ten-meter. The Chinese team, made up of Lin Shan and Yang Jian won by 26.6 points. The team competed a back dive pike (201B), a reverse two-and-a-half ...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. China added two golds to their collection in today's diving events. The day four final events started with women's synchronized three-meter. The winning team from China, made up of Shi Tingmao and Wang Han, put on a show for the judges and the world. The ...

Men's one-meter springboard and women's synchronized ten-meter wrapped up last night in Gwangju at the FINA World Championships. The Chinese team earned two golds and a bronze medal on day three alone. Yang Zongyuan won one of China's gold medals. He started finals in third place, before soon droppi...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor.  Diving has officially started at the 2019 FINA Diving World Championships with women's one-meter, men's synchronized three-meter, and mixed synchronized ten-meter platform. Mixed synchronized 10m was the first final event to finish. The Chinese team, mad...