Gao Min

Gao Min, born in 1970 in Zigong, Sichuan, is a Chinese diver who won gold medals in the springboard event at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games. She learned to swim at four and trained in gymnastics from the age of nine before a diving coach persuaded her to switch. Nicknamed the Diving Queen, she was undefeated in world competition on the 3 metre springboard between 1986 and 1992 and is the only female diver to pass 600 points in the event, which she did three times. Swimming World named her the best diver of the year from 1987 to 1989, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1998, and she later coached for many years in Edmonton, Alberta.