Diving

Passages: Legendary Diving Coach Ron O'Brien Dies at 86; Leaves Unmatched Legacy By Meg Marvin Dr. Ron O’Brien, a legend in the sport of diving, has died at the age of 86. As a coach, no one can compare to the resume O’Brien created in the sport of diving. He was an eight-time USA Olympic diving coa...

Jane Figueiredo Wins IOC Female Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award For 2024 Diving coach Jane Figueiredo has been honoured with the IOC Female Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024 after a year in which she guided athletes to the Olympic, world and European podiums. The annual awards celebrate...

Great Britain’s Aidan Heslop secured the first title of his Red Bull Cliff Diving career in Sydney on Sunday, rounding off a spectacular season with a fifth-place finish to secure the coveted King Kahekili trophy, while Rhiannan Iffland, confirmed champion at the previous stop, celebrated her record...

Passages: Bryan Robbins, SMU Hall of Fame Diver and Coach, 78 Bryan Robbins, a Hall of Fame diver and diving coach who had a storied career at Southern Methodist University, passed away on Nov. 2. He was 78 years old. Robbins was an All-American diver at SMU and coached Team USA at the 1976 Olympics...

Penn State Hires Loren Smith as Head Diving Coach Loren Smith has been hired as the head diving coach at Penn State, the university announced on Monday. Smith, who also goes by the nickname Buck, has spent the last 24 seasons at Eastern Michigan University. He heads south to join the staff of new he...

Lyle Yost Becomes Full-Time Assistant Coach at Ohio State Lyle Yost has joined the coaching staff at his alma mater Ohio State as a full-time assistant coach, the first in the program’s history. The two-time NCAA champion on men’s 1-meter wrapped up his college career last year. He also dove interna...

ISHOF Class of 2024: Canadian Diver Alex Despatie to be Inducted as Honor Diver Alexandre Despatie first came to public attention at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with an impressive gold medal on the 10-meter platform which included an unprecedented string of perfect 10s. H...

Legendary Miami Diving Coach Randy Ableman Retires After 35 Years Legendary diving coach Randy Ableman announced his retirement on Monday after 35 years at the University of Miami. Ableman arrived in Coral Gables in 1989. He’s coached 14 divers to 26 national championships. A nine-time CSCAA Coach o...

Tom Daley Retires After Olympic Career Spanning 16 Years & A Full Set Of Medals Tom Daley has retired from diving after a senior international career that spanned 16 years and brought Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles. The 30-year-old has been winning national titles since 2007 and in...

Paris Olympics: Cao Yuan Clinches China's Gold Medal Sweep in Diving Make that eight for eight. China concluded its unprecedented dominance in diving at the 2024 Paris Olympics with yet another gold-medal performance. Cao Yuan defended his Olympic title in the men's 10-meter platform on Saturday. It...

Paris Olympics: Chen Yiwen Keeps China 7 for 7 in Diving China continued to dominate diving at the 2024 Paris Olympics with yet another gold-medal performance. Chen Yiwen earned the gold medal on the women's 3-meter springboard as the Chinese went 1-3 in the competition. Chang Yani took the bronze. ...

China continued to dominate diving at the 2024 Paris Olympics and is aiming for history. Xie Siyi claimed gold on the 3-meter springboard for the second consecutive Olympic Games and led another 1-2 finish for the Chinese. Wang Zongyuan took the silver for the second consecutive Olympics. He had not...

Paris Olympics: China Finishes 1-2 in Dominating Women's 10-Meter Diving China continued its diving dominance at the 2024 Paris Olympics with a 1-2 finish in the women's 10-meter platform competition. The gold medal went to Quan Hongchan, who finished with a score of 425.60, leading from start to fi...

Paris Olympic Diving: Despite Push from Mexican Pair, China Stays Perfect in Men’s 3-Meter Synchro For the first time at the Paris Olympic diving competition, a Chinese team showed weakness on the boards. That wasn’t enough, though, to disrupt their quest for a medals sweep in Paris. Long Daoyi and ...

Paris Olympics: Chen Yuxi, Quan Hongchan Help China Start 3-for-3 with Platform Synchro Gold China’s bid to sweep the diving medals is well underway, at 3-for-3 with gold for Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan in the women’s 10-meter synchro platform. The Chinese pair was first all the way through to score...

Olympics: China Near Perfect on 10-Meter Men’s Synchro; Tom Daley Adds Silver to Set China’s duo of Lian Junjie and Yang Hao were near perfect in capturing gold in the 10-meter men’s synchro on Monday, with Tom Daley helping Great Britain to silver. Lian and Yang scored 490.35 points, with the top s...

Paris Olympics: Tom Daley Set For Historic Fifth Games, 16 Years After Debut At Beijing 2008 Tom Daley will on Monday compete in an historic fifth Olympic Games, 16 years after making his debut aged 14 at Beijing 2008. Now 30, the Team GB athlete will become the first British diver to take to the Ol...

Paris Olympics: Sarah Bacon, Kassidy Cook Claim Synchro Silver for First U.S. Medal The first American medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics belongs to Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook. The U.S. 3-meter women’s synchro pair kicked off Paris with silver in the event at the Paris Aquatics Centre, the first med...

Diver Brandon Loschiavo Added to Paris Olympics on Eve of Games Brandon Loschiavo has been added to Team USA’s roster for diving just a day before the Paris Olympics start. Loschiavo got the word Thursday that the U.S. would get an additional quota spot for men’s 10-meter after a last-minute withdra...

Canadian Molly Carlson is Reaching New Heights, On Diving and Online Platforms The first time Molly Carlson watched one of her videos on TikTok go certifiably viral, the content of it surprised her. It wasn’t a well-executed dive. It wasn’t a life milestone or a swimsuit haul that took off. It wasn’...