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. The competition took place at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre, from 22 to 30 September, comprising a total of 157 divers from 42 nations.^[1]

Diving at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Aquatic Centre
Date	22–30 September 2000
No. of events	8
Competitors	157 from 42 nations
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Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Xiong Ni  China	Fernando Platas  Mexico	Dmitri Sautin  Russia
10 m platform details	Tian Liang  China	Hu Jia  China	Dmitri Sautin  Russia
Synchronized 3 m springboard details	Xiong Ni and Xiao Hailiang (CHN)	Dmitri Sautin and Alexandre Dobroskok (RUS)	Robert Newbery and Dean Pullar (AUS)
Synchronized 10 m platform details	Dmitri Sautin and Igor Lukashin (RUS)	Hu Jia and Tian Liang (CHN)	Jan Hempel and Heiko Meyer (GER)

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Fu Mingxia  China	Guo Jingjing  China	Dörte Lindner  Germany
10 m platform details	Laura Wilkinson  United States	Li Na  China	Anne Montminy  Canada
Synchronized 3 m springboard details	Vera Ilina and Yulia Pakhalina (RUS)	Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing (CHN)	Ganna Sorokina and Olena Zhupina (UKR)
Synchronized 10 m platform details	Li Na and Sang Xue (CHN)	Émilie Heymans and Anne Montminy (CAN)	Rebecca Gilmore and Loudy Tourky (AUS)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	5	5	0	10
2	Russia (RUS)	2	1	2	5
3	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
4	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
5	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
6	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
	Germany (GER)	0	0	2	2
8	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

Here are listed the nations that were represented in the diving events and, in brackets, the number of national competitors.

Argentina (1)  Armenia (1)  Australia (6)  Austria (3)  Azerbaijan (1)  Belarus (2)  Brazil (2)  Canada (7)  China (8)  Chinese Taipei (4)  Colombia (2)  Cuba (6)  Czech Republic (1)  Finland (2)

France (6)  Georgia (1)  Germany (8)  Great Britain (8)  Greece (5)  Hong Kong (1)  Hungary (4)  Indonesia (3)  Italy (5)  Japan (1)  Kazakhstan (5)  Malaysia (3)  Mexico (7)  North Korea (5)

Peru (1)  Philippines (2)  Puerto Rico (1)  Romania (3)  Russia (7)  South Korea (4)  Spain (5)  Sweden (1)  Switzerland (3)  Thailand (2)  Ukraine (9)  United States (7)  Venezuela (3)  Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• Diving at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Diving at the 1999 Pan American Games
• Diving at the 2002 Commonwealth Games