Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, eight diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized
Synchronized diving
Synchronized diving is an Olympic sport. First brought to the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia in 2000, the event features two divers who attempt to perform identical or mirrored dives...

 variants for each of the traditional events. The competition took place at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre
Sydney International Aquatic Centre
The Sydney International Aquatic Centre is a swimming venue in Sydney, Australia. For the 2000 Summer Olympics, it hosted the swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, the medal events for water polo, and the swimming portion of the modern pentathlon competitions...

, from 22 to 30 September, comprising a total of 157 divers from 42 nations.

Men

3 metre springboard
10 metre platform
Synchronized
3 metre springboard
Synchronized
10 metre platform

Women

3 metre springboard
10 metre platform
Synchronized
3 metre springboard
Synchronized
10 metre platform

Medal table

1 5 5 0 10
2 2 1 2 5
3 1 0 0 1
4 0 1 1 2
5 0 1 0 1
6 0 0 2 2
0 0 2 2
8 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.

See also

  • Diving at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
    Diving at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
    The Diving Competition at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia counted a total number of six medal events: three events for both men and women.-1m Springboard:*Held on 18 September 1998-3m Springboard:*Held on 19 September 1998...

  • Diving at the 1999 Pan American Games
    Diving at the 1999 Pan American Games
    This page shows the results of the Diving Competition for men and women at the 1999 Pan American Games, held from March 11 to March 26, 1999 in Winnipeg, Canada...

  • Diving at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
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