Klaus Dibiasi

Klaus Dibiasi is an Italian diver who won Olympic gold in the men's 10-metre platform event in 1968, 1972, and 1976, and silver in 1980.

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1968 Summer Olympics: The Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City from October 12 to 27, 1968. Dibiasi won his first Olympic platform gold at these Games.
Carlo Dibiasi: An Italian diver and coach who competed internationally and coached his son Klaus. His father coached him and helped shape the training behind his Olympic career.
Platform diving: A diving discipline in which athletes perform from a rigid elevated platform. Dibiasi’s Olympic gold medals came in the 10-metre platform event.
List of multiple Olympic gold medalists: A catalog of athletes who have won multiple gold medals at the Olympic Games. Dibiasi’s three platform titles place him among Olympic champions with repeated success.
1972 Summer Olympics: The Summer Olympic Games held in Munich from August 26 to September 11, 1972. Dibiasi defended his platform title amid the upheaval of the Munich Games.
Giorgio Cagnotto: An Italian diver who won four Olympic medals between 1972 and 1980. Cagnotto was Dibiasi’s teammate and a leading figure in Italian diving.
10-metre platform: The fixed platform, ten metres above the water, used for elite platform diving. This was the apparatus for all four of Dibiasi’s Olympic platform medals.
List of Olympic medalists in diving: A record of athletes who have won Olympic medals in diving events. His four platform medals make his career a landmark in the event’s history.
1976 Summer Olympics: The Summer Olympic Games held in Montreal from July 17 to August 1, 1976. His third consecutive platform gold made him the event’s first three-time Olympic champion.
Olympic diving: The Olympic sport in which competitors perform dives from springboards or fixed platforms. Dibiasi’s career belongs to the history of the sport’s Olympic events.