Edwin Jongejans is a retired diver

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...

 from the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1988 and 1992.

Jongejans' best performance was winning the world title in the men's 1 metre springboard event at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia

Perth, Western Australia

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, for which he was named Dutch Sportsman of the Year (1991) alongside boxer Arnold Vanderlyde

Arnold Vanderlyde

Arnold Petrus Maria Vanderlyde is a former boxer from the Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics and won three bronze medals in the heavyweight division , starting in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. He started boxing at age fifteen...

. Jongejans surprised the favored Chinese and held off a late charge by Mark Lenzi

Mark Lenzi

Mark Edward Lenzi is a former American Olympic diver and diving coach. Lenzi is known for his Olympic gold medal in the 1992 Olympic Games, and his Olympic bronze medal in the 1996 Olympic Games on the 3m springboard....

 of the United States . His victory was the first by a non-American in world championship men's diving since 1975, when Greg Louganis

Greg Louganis

Gregory "Greg" Efthimios Louganis is an American Olympic diver and author.He received the James E. Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union in 1984 as the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States....

 accounted for five of the six events. Jongejans' sister Daphne

Daphne Jongejans

Daphne Cérès Jongejans is a retired female diver from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics: 1984, 1988 and 1992....

was also a well-known international diver.