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.

Men

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

Women

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

Medal table

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

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.