Fu Mingxia is a retired Chinese diver, born on 16 August 1978 in Wuhan, Hubei, who grew up in a working-class family and was steered from gymnastics into diving at about seven, before she could swim. Coach Yu Fen took her to Beijing in 1989 to train at a state boarding school. In 1991 she won the platform world championship in Perth at twelve, the youngest diving champion of all time. At the 1992 Barcelona Games she took Olympic gold at 13 years and 345 days old, one of the youngest Olympic diving champions. She dominated the 1990s with very difficult dives, and her fourth gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics made her, with Pat McCormick and Greg Louganis, one of only three quadruple Olympic diving champions.
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is a retired Chinese diver, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion
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(born August 16, 1978
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She won the platform-diving world championship in 1991 at the age of 12
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During the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Fu won her fourth gold medal
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is a retired Chinese diver, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion
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is a retired Chinese diver, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion
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Fu made her Olympic debut at the 1992 Games, held in Barcelona, Spain. She won gold in the platform competition.
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