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Women's Olympic Diving

Multiple gold medals: Pat McCormick and Fu Mingxia (4); Ingrid Engel-Krämer (3); Vicki Draves, Dorothy Poynton Hill, Guo Jingjing and Gao Min (2).

Springboard

Year  Points
1920 Aileen Riggin, USA 539.9 
1924 Elizabeth Becker, USA 474.5 
1928 Helen Meany, USA 78.62
1932 Georgia Coleman, USA 87.52
1936 Marjorie Gestring, USA 89.27
1948 Vicki Draves, USA 108.74
1952 Pat McCormick, USA 147.30
1956 Pat McCormick, USA 142.36
1960 Ingrid Krämer, GER 155.81
1964 Ingrid Engel-Kräamer, GER 145.00
1968 Sue Gossick, USA 150.77
1972 Micki King, USA 450.03
1976 Jennifer Chandler, USA 506.19
1980 Irina Kalinina, USSR 725.91
1984 Sylvie Bernier, CAN 530.70
1988 Gao Min, CHN 580.23
1992 Gao Min, CHN 572.40
1996Fu Mingxia, CHN547.68
2000Fu Mingxia, CHN609.42
2004 Guo Jingjing, CHN633.15

Platform

Year  Points
1912 Greta Johansson, SWE 39.9 
1920 Stefani Fryland-Clausen, DEN 34.6 
1924 Caroline Smith, USA 33.2 
1928 Elizabeth Becker Pinkston, USA 31.6 
1932 Dorothy Poynton, USA 40.26
1936 Dorothy Poynton Hill, USA 33.93
1948 Vicki Draves, USA 68.87
1952 Pat McCormick, USA 79.37
1956 Pat McCormick, USA 84.85
1960 Ingrid Krämer, GER 91.28
1964 Lesley Bush, USA 99.80
1968 Milena Duchková, CZE 109.59
1972 Ulrika Knape, SWE 390.00
1976 Elena Vaytsekhovskaya, USSR 406.59
1980 Martina Jäschke, E. Ger 596.25
1984 Zhou Jihong, CHN 435.51
1988 Xu Yanmei, CHN 445.20
1992 Fu Mingxia, CHN 461.43
1996Fu Mingxia, CHN521.58
2000Laura Wilkinson, USA543.75
2004 Chantelle Newberry, AUS 590.31

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