PARIS – Below, a brief statistical look at diving, which begins on Saturday 27 July at the Olympic Aquatics Centre. 

1988 - The year that the People’s Republic of China started to win every women's individual 3m springboard event. This run of nine Olympic gold medals is the longest active gold-medal streak by one nation in any diving event.

73.6 - Percentage of Olympic diving gold medals by either China or the United States prior to Paris 2024.  

48 - Number of Olympic diving gold medals won by USA, the most of any nation. China has won 47. (Before the start of the Paris 2024 Games.)

34 - Age in years of the oldest Olympic diving gold medallist, Hjalmar Johansson of Sweden, when he won the men's 10m platform in 1908.  To be exact, he was 34 years and 185 days old at the time.

21 - Nations that have won Olympic diving medals heading into Paris 2024.

13 - Age in years of the youngest Olympic gold medalist in diving, when Marjorie Gestring of the US won the women's 3m springboard at the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games. She was 13 years and 267 days old.

10 – Total number of Olympic gold medals China has won in synchronized 10m platform events leading up to Paris 2024. China swept gold in both the men’s and women’s events in 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016.

8 - Total medals won by the most decorated athlete in Olympic diving, Dmitry Sautin of Russia/Unified team (two gold, two silver, and four bronze).

4 - Number of Olympic medals won by China’s Wu Minxia in the women's synchronised 3m, making her the only athlete to have won four gold medals in a single event.

1 – Olympic diving medal earned by the 2024 host nation, France: a silver in 1952 in the women’s 3m springboard by Mady Moreau.

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