Gary Tobian
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Born | August 14, 1935 (1935-08-14) (age 89) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | LAAC, Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gary Milburn Tobian (born August 14, 1935) is a retired American diver. He competed in the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics and won a gold or silver medal in all his events: a gold in the 3 m springboard in 1960 and two silvers in the 10 m platform. Tobian held six Association of American Universities (AAU) titles in the platform, and won the springboard at the 1958 AAU Championships and at the 1959 Pan American Games.[1] In 1978 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[2]
Tobian was a successful businessman.[2] He was married to the Olympic swimmer Marley Shriver, but they later divorced.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b Gary Tobian Archived March 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b "GARY TOBIAN (USA) 1978 Honor Diver". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
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- 1908: Albert Zürner (GER)
- 1912: Paul Günther (GER)
- 1920: Louis Kuehn (USA)
- 1924: Albert White (USA)
- 1928: Pete Desjardins (USA)
- 1932: Michael Galitzen (USA)
- 1936: Richard Degener (USA)
- 1948: Bruce Harlan (USA)
- 1952: David Browning (USA)
- 1956: Bob Clotworthy (USA)
- 1960: Gary Tobian (USA)
- 1964: Kenneth Sitzberger (USA)
- 1968: Bernard Wrightson (USA)
- 1972: Vladimir Vasin (URS)
- 1976: Phil Boggs (USA)
- 1980: Aleksandr Portnov (URS)
- 1984: Greg Louganis (USA)
- 1988: Greg Louganis (USA)
- 1992: Mark Lenzi (USA)
- 1996: Xiong Ni (CHN)
- 2000: Xiong Ni (CHN)
- 2004: Peng Bo (CHN)
- 2008: He Chong (CHN)
- 2012: Ilya Zakharov (RUS)
- 2016: Cao Yuan (CHN)
- 2020: Xie Siyi (CHN)
- 2024: Xie Siyi (CHN)
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