Sun Shuwei

Sun Shuwei, born in 1976, is a Chinese diver who began diving training in 1984 and joined the national team in 1989. He won the 10 metre platform at the 1990 Asian Games, took gold at both the Diving World Cup and the World Diving Championship the next year, and won the 10 metre platform gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics at the age of only sixteen. A retina disease interrupted his career in 1993, and after surgery he returned to beat the field at the 1995 World Cup. A selection contest kept him off the 1996 Olympic team, which remained a lifelong regret. In 1998 and 1999 he won the synchronised platform event with Tian Liang, and after retiring in 2001 he became a coach with the national team and later the Guangdong provincial team.