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Gabriela Agúndez at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Diving competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Watch: A forward dive
Watch: A back dive
Watch: A reverse somersault dive
Watch: An inward somersault dive
Watch: An armstand somersault dive
Pat McCormick in midair Olympic diver Guo Jingjing
Observe an experiment demonstrating which is faster over 10 meters by comparing the fastest sprinter in the world with a falling object
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Watch: A forward dive
Forward dive technique.
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Watch: A back dive
Back dive straightThe diver stands...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Watch: A reverse somersault dive
Reverse 2
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Watch: An inward somersault dive
Inward 2
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Watch: An armstand somersault dive
Armstand somersault pikeThe diver...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Observe an experiment demonstrating which is faster over 10 meters by comparing the fastest sprinter in the world with a falling object
An experiment to demonstrate which is faster over 10 metres: the fastest sprinter...
Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Challenges faced by a professional free diver
Learn about skin (free) diving.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz

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Gabriela Agúndez at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Mexican diver Gabriela Agúndez competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, August...
© Clive Rose/Getty Images
Diving competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Grace Reid (left) and Katherine Torrance of Great Britain competing during the women's...
© Al Bello/Getty Images
Pat McCormick in midair
American Pat McCormick diving at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games.
© Bettmann/Getty Images
Olympic diver Guo Jingjing
Guo Jingjing diving in the women's 3-meter springboard preliminaries at the 2008...
© John Walton/EMPICS—PA Images/Getty Images
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