Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Montréal Olympic Pool, from 19 to 27 July (July 24, rest day), comprising 82 divers from 22 nations.

Medal summary

The events are named according to the International Olympic Committee labelling, but they appeared on the official report as "springboard diving" and "platform diving", respectively.^[1]

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Phil Boggs United States (USA)	Giorgio Cagnotto Italy (ITA)	Aleksandr Kosenkov Soviet Union (URS)
10 metre platform	Klaus Dibiasi Italy (ITA)	Greg Louganis United States (USA)	Vladimir Aleynik Soviet Union (URS)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Jennifer Chandler United States (USA)	Christa Köhler East Germany (GDR)	Cynthia Potter United States (USA)
10 metre platform	Elena Vaytsekhovskaya Soviet Union (URS)	Ulrika Knape Sweden (SWE)	Deborah Wilson United States (USA)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	1	2	5
2	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
3	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	2	3
4	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1

Participating nations

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

Australia (4) Austria (3) Brazil (1) Canada (9) Czechoslovakia (1) East Germany (7) Ecuador (1) France (2) Great Britain (4) Italy (4) Japan (3)

Kuwait (2) Mexico (5) New Zealand (1) Soviet Union (11) Spain (3) Sweden (3) Thailand (1) Turkey (1) United States (11) Venezuela (1) West Germany (4)

See also

• Diving at the 1975 Pan American Games

Notes

1. Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIst Olympiad, Montréal 1976 (COJO 76), p. 441.

References

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-11-22.
• The Official Report for the Games of the XXIst Olympiad Montréal 1976 - Volume 3: Results (pdf). Ottawa: Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIst Olympiad, Montréal 1976 (COJO 76). 1978. Retrieved 2007-01-08.