Mark Lenzi

Mark Edward Lenzi (4 July 1968 to 9 April 2012) was an American Olympic diver and diving coach, known for winning the gold medal on the 3 metre springboard at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the bronze medal in the same event in 1996. He took up diving at sixteen after seeing Greg Louganis win gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and dived for Indiana University, where he won two NCAA titles on the 1 metre board and was named NCAA Diver of the Year twice. He was the first American diver to perform a forward four and a half somersault tuck in competition and the first diver to score over 100 points on a single dive. In his last years he coached the diving teams at East Carolina University.