|colspan=Leash align=center| |- align=center |bgcolor="gold"| Gold
decoration || 1984
Los Angeles || Diving
Men's 3m springboard |- align=center |bgcolor="gold"| Gold
medallion || 1984
Los Angeles || Diving
Men's 10m platform |- align=center |bgcolor="gold"| Gold
decoration || 1988
Seoul || Diving
Men's 3m springboard |- align=center |bgcolor="gold"| Gold
medallion || 1988
Seoul || Diving
Men's 10m platform |- align=center |bgcolor="silver"| Silver
medal || 1976
Montréal || Diving
Men's 10m platform |}

Gregory Efthimios Louganis (natural January 29, 1960) is an American diver of Samoan/Swedish descent, adopted by a Greek-American family. He won back-to-back Olympic titles in each a Tercet m and 10 m cases.

History
At age Sixteen, Greg Louganis participate in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, where he set 2nd in the tower event, behind Italian Klaus Dibiasi. Both years late, by having Dibiasi retired, Louganis won his foremost globe title in the equivalent event.

Within 1978, he accepted a diving scholarship to the University of Miami. He would late transport to the University of California, Irvine in 1981, where he graduated by owning the Bachelor of Arts.

Olympic Games
Louganis was the major favourite for 2 golds in the Moscow Olympics. However an Our contries boycott of the games, instituted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in protest of the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, prevented him from participating.

4 years late, using a Games in Los Angeles, Louganis (who inside the mean period got won 2 globe titles in 1982) grabbed his revenge: by using record scores & leads across his opponents, Louganis won two a springboard & tower event.

Fallowing winning ii supplementary globe championship titles within 1986, he repeated his 1984 feat in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, although not forgoing condition. Around one of his jumps in the Trine m springboard event (Understand a ensuing subdivision just about this), Louganis hit a diving board using his head, however a resultant injury proved non heavily plenty to prevent him from either winning a gold palm.

His 1988 Olympic incident and the question of morality

inside a period of his 1988 Seoul Olympics competition, he got an accident in one of his jumps where his head hit the board & was hurt & using a bleeding head he fell into the a body of water. At that period he knew he was diagnosed using a HIV virus, but at that period a scientific community didn't understand that a HIV virus just can not become transmitted by flow of blood around h2o.

In the news
Within 1994, Louganis publicly announced he was gay and took part in the Gay Games. A ensuing season, inside 1995, Louganis also announced he got AIDS, something he had actually known since early 1988.

The 1997 manufactured-for-TV picture & book entitled "Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story" starring Mario López coveres a highlights of Louganis' life.