Artistic and high diving

The beginnings of diving as a competitive sport are in Germany and Sweden. In 1886 the first German championships were held in men's artistic diving, in high diving in 1925. For women in artistic diving in 1911 and in diving in 1933. Men's diving was included in the Olympic Games program in 1904, and artistic diving in 1908 High diving was Olympic in 1912 and artistic diving in 1920. Synchronized diving has also been an Olympic discipline since 2000.

Artistic and high diving is the execution of various jumps from a diving tower or springboard into a diving pool with a minimum water depth of between 3.40 and 4.50 m. Artistic diving and high diving are completed competitively. In synchronized jumping, two members of a team perform their jumps at the same time and as synchronously as possible from a 3 m board or from a 10 m tower. The freely designed jumps are divided into jump groups according to the starting position and direction of rotation and can be shown in 4 different ways. Each jump has a difficulty graph that is determined using a calculation table. The execution is evaluated by a maximum of 9 judges with grades from 0 to 10.

A high diver shoots into the water from a height of 10 m at almost 50 km/h. Within a few tenths of a second, its speed drops to zero. It weighs 35 times its own body weight on it.