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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 four new events added for the 2000 games since a change was made in 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 an outright final:

Final: 23 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:
Vera Ilyina and Yuliya Pakhalina,	Fu Mingxia Fu Mingxia Fu Mingxia . She is a top female diver, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion. She is about 1.58m tall .-Early life and career:...  and Guo Jingjing Guo Jingjing Guo Jingjing is a Chinese female diver from the People's Republic of China. She has won more Olympic medals than any other female diver and has won the 3m springboard event at five consecutive World Championships. She announced her retirement in 2011.... ,	Ganna Sorokina Ganna Sorokina Ganna Sorokina is a female diver from Ukraine who won the bronze medal with Olena Zhupina in the Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard competition. Sorokina also competed in the individual 3m Springboard competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics...  and Olena Zhupina Olena Zhupina Olena Zhupina is a female diver from Ukraine who won the bronze medal with Ganna Sorokina in the Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Zhupina also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-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	Vera Ilyina and Yuliya Pakhalina		52.80	1	55.80 (108.60)	1 (1)	74.76 (183.36)	1 (1)	73.95 (257.31)	2 (1)	75.33	1	332.64
2	Fu Mingxia Fu Mingxia Fu Mingxia . She is a top female diver, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion. She is about 1.58m tall .-Early life and career:... and Guo Jingjing Guo Jingjing Guo Jingjing is a Chinese female diver from the People's Republic of China. She has won more Olympic medals than any other female diver and has won the 3m springboard event at five consecutive World Championships. She announced her retirement in 2011....		48.60	3	51.60 (100.20)	2 (2)	70.20 (170.40)	2 (2)	76.50 (246.90)	1 (2)	74.70	2	321.60
3	Ganna Sorokina Ganna Sorokina Ganna Sorokina is a female diver from Ukraine who won the bronze medal with Olena Zhupina in the Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard competition. Sorokina also competed in the individual 3m Springboard competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics... and Olena Zhupina Olena Zhupina Olena Zhupina is a female diver from Ukraine who won the bronze medal with Ganna Sorokina in the Women's 3m Synchronized Springboard competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Zhupina also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:*...		49.20	2	50.40 (99.60)	3 (3)	63.84 (163.44)	3 (3)	60.48 (223.92)	6 (3)	66.42	3	290.34
4	Chantelle Michell and Loudy Tourky Loudy Tourky Loudy Wiggins is an Australian diver.She was born in Haifa, Israel and is of a Palestinian background. She was born to Butros and Afaf Tourky. They came to Australia when Loudy was three. Loudy has commented, "I will always have a bond with Palestine...		46.80	4	48.00 (94.80)	5 (4)	61.32 (156.12)	5 (5)	61.32 (217.44)	5 (5)	65.61	4	283.05
5	Eryn Bulmer Eryn Bulmer Eryn Bulmer Barrett is a female diver from Canada, who won the gold medal in the Women's 3m Springboard at the 1999 Pan American Games. She represented her native country at two Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000.... and Blythe Hartley Blythe Hartley Blythe Hartley is a Canadian Olympic diver. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta and began diving at age 12. She went to the National Sport School in Calgary, Alberta with many other top Canadian athletes...		45.00	8	45.00 (90.00)	7 (7)	60.75 (150.75)	6 (7)	63.00 (213.75)	4 (6)	65.25	5	279.00
6	Maria Alcalá and Jashia Luna Jashia Luna Jashia Judith Luña Alfaro is a female diver from Mexico. She represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 2000.-References:*...		46.20	5	48.60 (94.80)	4 (4)	62.16 (156.96)	4 (4)	52.08 (209.04)	7 (7)	64.80	6	273.84
7	Dörte Lindner Dörte Lindner Dörte Lindner is a German diver who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Lindner also competed for USC and won the Pac-10 conference championships in the Women's 1m and 3m Springboard in 1998.... and Conny Schmalfuss Conny Schmalfuss Conny Schmalfuss is a female diver from Germany, who won her first international medal at the 1991 European Championships in Athens, Greece in the women's 1 m springboard....		45.60	6	47.40 (93.00)	6 (6)	58.80 (151.80)	7 (6)	66.60 (218.40)	3 (4)	45.36	8	263.76
8	Catherine Maliev-Aviolat and Jacqueline Schneider		45.60	6	43.20 (88.80)	8 (8)	54.00 (142.80)	8 (8)	51.24 (194.04)	8 (8)	62.16	7	256.20