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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...

 events included in the Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events...

programme and one of the newest four events since 1924

Diving at the 1924 Summer Olympics

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, five diving events were contested. The competitions were held from Monday, July 14, 1924 to Sunday, July 20, 1924.-Medal summary:...

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The competition was held as a direct final:

Final: 28 September — Each pair of divers performed five dives freely chosen from the five diving groups, with two dives limited to a 2.0 degree of difficulty and the others without limitation. Divers could perform different dives during the same dive if both presented the same difficulty degree. The final ranking was determined by the score attained by the pair after all five dives had been performed.

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Xiong Ni and Xiao Hailiang,	Dmitri Sautin Dmitri Sautin Dmitri Ivanovich Sautin is a Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver. He was born in Voronezh.Sautin started diving at age seven; however, his diving career almost ended in 1991 when he was stabbed multiple times in an attack. After spending two months in the hospital,...  and Alexandre Dobroskok,	Robert Newbery Robert Newbery Robert Frederick Newbery is an Australian diver, who won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics and two bronze medals in the 2004 Summer Olympics, one with synchronised springboard diving partner Steven Barnett.His wife, Chantelle Newbery, has also won an Olympic medal in diving...  and Dean Pullar Dean Pullar Dean Lester Pullar is an Australian diver, who won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics alongside Robert Newbery.-References:*... ,

Results

• Values in brackets represent the aggregate score and ranking at the end of the dive.

Rank	Divers	NOC	Dive 1		Dive 2		Dive 3		Dive 4		Dive 5
			Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total
1	Xiong Ni and Xiao Hailiang		55.80	1	54.00 (109.80)	1 (1)	79.98 (189.78)	1 (1)	86.70 (276.48)	1 (1)	89.10	1	365.58
2	Dmitri Sautin Dmitri Sautin Dmitri Ivanovich Sautin is a Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver. He was born in Voronezh.Sautin started diving at age seven; however, his diving career almost ended in 1991 when he was stabbed multiple times in an attack. After spending two months in the hospital,...  and Alexandre Dobroskok		52.20	2	52.20 (104.40)	2 (2)	70.68 (175.08)	5 (2)	69.75 (244.83)	6 (3)	85.14	2	329.97
3	Robert Newbery Robert Newbery Robert Frederick Newbery is an Australian diver, who won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics and two bronze medals in the 2004 Summer Olympics, one with synchronised springboard diving partner Steven Barnett.His wife, Chantelle Newbery, has also won an Olympic medal in diving...  and Dean Pullar Dean Pullar Dean Lester Pullar is an Australian diver, who won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics alongside Robert Newbery.-References:*...		48.60	5	49.20 (97.80)	4 (4)	64.17 (161.97)	7 (7)	84.66 (246.63)	2 (2)	76.23	5	322.86
4	Troy Dumais Troy Dumais Troy Matthew Dumais is an Olympic diver from California. Dumais represented the United States in the 2000 Olympic Games, 2004 Olympic Games, and 2008 Olympic Games...  and David Pichler David Pichler David Pichler is an American Olympic diver representing the United States in 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where Pichler was elected team captain....		48.00	6	46.20 (94.20)	8 (7)	72.00 (166.20)	2 (5)	77.19 (243.39)	3 (5)	77.52	4	320.91
5	Fernando Platas Fernando Platas Fernando Platas is a Mexican diver. He began diving since he was a young boy. In 1990 he won in Germany two tests of 2 and 10 metres, and in that same year he won three gold medals in the Central American Games which took place in Mexico City.In 1992, he represented Mexico in the 1992 Summer...  and Eduardo Rueda		51.60	3	49.20 (100.80)	4 (3)	72.00 (172.80)	2 (3)	71.10 (243.90)	5 (4)	73.80	6	317.70
6	Gilles Emptoz-Lacote and Fréderic Piérre		49.20	4	47.40 (96.60)	6 (6)	68.04 (164.64)	6 (6)	65.25 (229.87)	7 (7)	80.19	3	310.08
7	Tony Ally Tony Ally Antonio Piero Ally is a British diver. He was born in Luton, England.In 1998 he was a bronze medalist at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, won Gold in the European Championships for the three metre event in 1999, and won Silver at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.He placed 18th and...  and Mark Shipman Mark Shipman Mark Shipman is a British diver.He has competed at European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic levels on the 3 metre springboard. With Tony Ally he came 7th in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney....		46.20	8	46.80 (93.00)	7 (8)	63.24 (156.24)	8 (8)	73.80 (230.04)	4 (6)	66.60	7	296.64
8	Nicola Marconi Nicola Marconi Nicola Marconi is an Italian diver.He was born in Rome. At the 2000 Olympic Games he finished finished 26th in the 3 metre springboard event and eighth together with Donald Miranda in the synchronized 3 metre springboard event...  and Donald Miranda Donald Miranda Donald Miranda is a retired Italian diver.He was born in Turin. At the 2000 Olympic Games he finished finished 16th in the 3 metre springboard event and eighth together with Nicola Marconi in the synchronized 3 metre springboard event....		47.40	7	49.80 (97.20)	3 (5)	72.00 (169.20)	2 (4)	59.52 (228.72)	8 (8)	57.66	8	286.38