Larry Andreasen was a diver

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...

 from the United States

United States

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. He represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics

1964 Summer Olympics

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

 in Tokyo

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, where he received the bronze medal in springboard diving.

In later years, Andreasen several times attempted to set the record for the highest dive from a bridge. In 1988 he successfully dove 160 feet from the Gerald Desmond Bridge

Gerald Desmond Bridge

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 in Long Beach, CA, erroneously believing he was breaking the record, and was arrested for this undertaking. On October 26, 1990, Andreasen was killed diving from the 385-foot west tower of the Vincent Thomas Bridge

Vincent Thomas Bridge

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 in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. His death was ruled an accident.