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Diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Diving at the Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ900199 ↗
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At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc, from 26 July to 4 August ( 30–31 July, rest days), comprising 100 divers from 31 nations.

Medal summary

The events are named according to the International Olympic Committee labelling, but they appeared on the official report as "springboard diving" and "platform diving", respectively.

Men

Women

Medal table

Participating nations

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

See also

Diving at the 1991 Pan American Games

Diving at the 1994 Commonwealth Games

Notes

References

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 19 December 2006.

Ed. Romà Cuyàs (ed.). Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad: The Results (pdf) (in Spanish, Catalan, French, and English). Barcelona: COOB'92, S.A. (Barcelona'92 Olympic Organising Committee).

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