Wu Minxia

Wu Minxia competed in DIVING

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• Judges award a score out of 10 for each dive which is adjusted to take into account the dive’s degree of difficulty.
• Eight gold medals are on offer, evenly split between men and women.
• Events consist of individual and synchronised competitions in both the 3m springboard and 10m platform.
• In the synchronised diving events, pairs of athletes dive in tandem and are also assessed for their level of synchronisation.
• Diving made its Olympic debut in 1904 and a women's event was added eight years later, making it one of the first Olympic sports to incorporate events for both sexes.