Divers at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Dmitri Sautin, Jan Hempel, Xiong Ni, Fu Mingxia, Irina Lashko, Mark Lenzi, Anne Montminy, Tony Ally (Paperback)

Chapters: Dmitri Sautin, Jan Hempel, Xiong Ni, Fu Mingxia, Irina Lashko, Mark Lenzi, Anne Montminy, Tony Ally, Michael Murphy, Mary Ellen Clark, Vera Ilyina, Eryn Bulmer, Annie Pelletier, Bob Morgan, Patrick Jeffrey, Evan Stewart, Anna Lindberg, Philippe Comtois, David Bedard, Olena Zhupina, Joakim Andersson, Ute Wetzig, Paige Gordon, Vladimir Timoshinin, Rafael Alvarez, Scott Donie, Roman Volod'kov, Xiao Hailiang, Svitlana Serbina, Davide Lorenzini, Simona Koch, David Pichler, Andrey Semenyuk. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dmitri Ivanovich Sautin (Russian: born March 15, 1974) is a Russian diver who has won more medals than any other Olympic diver. He was born in Voronezh. Sautin started diving at age seven; however, his diving career almost ended in 1991 when he was stabbed multiple times in an attack. After spending two months in the hospital, he was able to dive at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He has won medals at the 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and the 2008 Olympics. With eight Olympic medals, Sautin has won more Olympic medals than any other diver in history. Representing the Unified Team (Equipe Unifie) in 1992, he earned a bronze on the springboard. In 1996, he was the gold medalist on the platform, representing Russia. The addition of synchronized events in 2000 allowed Sautin to enter four diving events in Sydney and he won medals in all four events, topped by a gold medal in the synchronized platform event. Sautin won his seventh Olympic medal, a bronze, in 2004 on the springboard. He added an eighth to his tally, a silver, in 2008 on the 3m synchronised springboard event diving with fellow Russian partner Yuriy Kunakov. Sautin was also world champion on the springboard in 1998 and 2001, and on the platform in 1994 ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3230934