Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Diving

Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard		men		women
10 m platform		men		women

At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex Swimming Pool, from 20 to 28 July (24 July, rest day), comprising 67 divers from 23 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.

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Aleksandr Portnov (URS)	Carlos Girón (MEX)	Giorgio Cagnotto (ITA)
10 metre platform	Falk Hoffmann (GDR)	Vladimir Aleynik (URS)	David Ambartsumyan (URS)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard	Irina Kalinina (URS)	Martina Pröeber (GDR)	Karin Guthke (GDR)
10 metre platform	Martina Jäschke (GDR)	Sirvard Emirzyan (URS)	Liana Tsotadze (URS)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	2	6
2	East Germany (GDR)	2	1	1	4
3	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
4	Italy (ITA)	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.

Australia (4)  Austria (2)  Brazil (1)  Bulgaria (2)  Cuba (2)  Czechoslovakia (2)  Denmark (1)

Dominican Republic (2)  East Germany (9)  France (1)  Great Britain (6)  Hungary (2)  Italy (1)  Kuwait (1)

Mexico (6)  Poland (2)  Romania (3)  Soviet Union (12) 23x15px Spain (3)  Sweden (2)  Zimbabwe (3)

See also

• Diving at the 1979 Pan American Games