David Boudia

David Boudia is an American diver, born on 24 April 1989 in Abilene, Texas, who trained at Purdue University and joined the United States national diving team in 2005. He won the gold medal in the men's 10 metre platform at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic gold for an American man in that event since Greg Louganis in 1988, and took bronze in the synchronized 10 metre platform at the same Games with Nick McCrory. At the 2016 Summer Olympics he won silver in the synchronized event with Steele Johnson and bronze in the individual platform. He also won world championship medals in 2007, 2009 and 2011, later moved to the 3 metre springboard after a concussion, and wrote the autobiography Greater Than Gold.