Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally...
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for Sport Diving - firstly, encourage the further development of recreational scuba diving equipment and technique; secondly, promote scuba diving activities...
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High diving is the act of diving into water from relatively great heights. High diving can be performed as an adventure sport (as with cliff diving), as...
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Look up diving or dive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Diving most often refers to: Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water Underwater...
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Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment. The term "recreational diving" may...
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qualifier for the Døds Diving World Championship. The Døds Diving World Championship is the pinnacle event of the sport of death diving, and has taken place...
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List of water sports (redirect from Water sport)
Water polo is a sport of two teams played in the water with a ball. Water volleyball Cave diving Deep diving Freediving Ice diving Mermaiding Spearfishing...
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Death Diving is a form of extreme freestyle high diving jumping with stretched arms and belly first, landing in either a cannonball or a pike position...
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to: Diving (sport), the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water Practitioner of underwater diving, including: scuba diving, freediving...
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Diving was first introduced in the official programme of the Summer Olympic Games at the 1904 Games of St. Louis and has been an Olympic sport since. It...
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A diving platform or diving tower is a type of structure used for competitive diving. It consists of a vertical rigid "tower" with one or more horizontal...
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Shallow diving is an extreme sport, whereby enthusiasts attempt to dive from the greatest height into the shallowest depth of water, without sustaining...
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Great Britain Diving Federation (GBDF) is the English, Welsh and Scottish amateur sports body for competitive diving, an Olympic sport, in collaboration...
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This is a list of diving facilities, especially those including 10-meter diving platforms. This is usually the last feature of an athletics complex required...
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diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique...
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Juliette Landi (category European diving (sport) biography stubs)
but eventually lost interest. She took up diving during the COVID pandemic. Landi trains at the Woodlands Diving Club in Houston, Texas, USA, and is a member...
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Stefano Belotti (category European diving (sport) biography stubs)
springboard, jump event, synchronized diving 3m and team event. He won the gold medal with Matteo Santoro in synchronized diving 3m and the silver in 1m springboard...
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A cannonball, also referred to as a bomb, is a diving style where the diver hugs their knees and attempts to enter the water with their body shaped as...
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Freediving (redirect from Free diving)
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing...
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Philippe Comtois (category Canadian diving (sport) biography stubs)
Canadian diver. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He began diving at age 9 and stopped diving in 2005. He finished his studies in accountancy at the Université...
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Lao Lishi (category Asian diving (sport) biography stubs)
gold medal in women's 10 meter synchronized platform along with Li Ting. Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;...
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Myriam Boileau (category Canadian diving (sport) biography stubs)
finished seventh on the 10m platform diving event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She has recently retired from competitive diving. sports-reference - Myriam Boileau...
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Cliff jumping (redirect from Tombstoning (diving))
Cliff diving is the leaping off a cliff edge, usually into a body of water, as a form of sport. It may be done as part of the sport of coastal exploration...
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Nicole Ng (category Diving (sport) biography stubs)
World Cup selection (11 February 2004). "ABC-Aussies-dive". ABC News. Athlete media guide 2007 diving Australia. "Media-guide-athlete" (PDF).{{cite web}}:...
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Tom Daley (category Olympic medalists in diving)
four-time Commonwealth champion. Daley started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club, where his talent was identified early...
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Springboard (redirect from Springboard diving)
A springboard or diving board is used for diving and is a board that is itself a spring, i.e. a linear flex-spring, of the cantilever type. Springboards...
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Dana Kunze (category American diving (sport) biography stubs)
high-diver. He has held the world records for the highest dives. Kunze began his professional high diving career in 1974 at the age of 13. He won his first world...
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Peng Bo (category Asian diving (sport) biography stubs)
the men's 3m springboard diving event with a score of 787.38. He also competed in the men's synchronised 3m springboard diving event along with his partner...
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Rikuto Tamai (category Asian diving (sport) biography stubs)
Japan's first Olympic medal in diving at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In April 2019, he became the youngest ever national indoor diving champion. In September of...
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