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Iván García

Personal information
Full name	Iván Alejandro García Navarro
Nickname	Pollo
Born	(1993-10-25) 25 October 1993 (age 31) Guadalajara, Mexico
Home town	Guadalajara
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	47 kg (104 lb)
Spouse	Paola Espinosa
Sport
Country	Mexico
Event(s)	Diving 10 m, 10 m synchro
Club	Jalisco
Partner	Kevin Berlín
Former partner	Germán Sánchez
Medal record Men's diving Representing  Mexico Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games - 1 - World Championships - 1 – World Cup - 2 1 Pan American Games 4 1 – Central American and Caribbean Games 4 - - Youth Olympic Games - - 1 Summer Universiade - - 2 Summer Olympics 2012 London 10 m synchro World Championships 2015 Kazan 10 m synchro FINA Diving World Cup 2012 London 10 m synchro 2020 Tokyo 10 m synchro 2014 Shanghai 10 m platform Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara 10 m platform 2011 Guadalajara 10 m synchro 2015 Toronto 10 m platform 2019 Lima 10 m synchro 2019 Lima 10 m platform Central American and Caribbean Games 2010 Mayagüez 10 m synchro 2014 Veracruz 10 m platform 2018 Barranquilla 10 m platform 2018 Barranquilla 10 m synchro Youth Olympic Games 2010 Singapore 10 m platform Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan 10 m synchro 2013 Kazan Team

Iván Alejandro García Navarro (born 25 October 1993) is a Mexican diver. He is nicknamed "Pollo" ("Chicken"). He competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He won a silver medal in the 10m Synchronized Platform with his partner Germán Sánchez with a high score of 468.90. In the individual 10m Platform, García came the 7th with a score of 521.65.

He won two gold medals in both the individual and synchronized 10m Platform in the 2011 Pan-American Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London García won the silver medal in the synchronized 10 metre platform diving, with his partner Germán Sánchez. At the 2015 Pan American Games, he retained the gold medal in the individual 10m platform back to back. In Rio 2016 he finished 10th on the individual platform.

Technical Features

Iván García is a talented diver who can perform the most difficult dives all over the world. He has mastered a series of the most difficult dives since 2012. The dives which he uses now in the competition and their difficult degrees are respectively Forward 4+1⁄2 Somersaults-Tuck 109C(3.7), Back 3+1⁄2 Somersaults-Tuck 207C(3.3), Reverse 3+1⁄2 Somersaults-Tuck 307C(3.4), Inward 4+1⁄2 Somersaults-Tuck 409C(4.1), Forward 2+1⁄2 Somersaults 3 Twists-Pike 5156B(3.8) and Armstand Back 2 Soms 2+1⁄2 Twists-Free 6245D(3.6). The total difficult degrees of his dives is 21.9, which is the highest in the world. Iván García is able to dive either the most difficult dive or the second most difficult dive in each of the six diving groups(forward, backward, reverse, inward, twisting and armstand groups). Among these dives, 409C is the most difficult dive being used around the world currently. In 2012 London Olympic Games, Iván García and his partner Germán Sánchez placed second in the synchronized platform—the best performance of Mexicans in synchronized diving. However, due to the difficulty of his dives, he cannot perform perfectly all the time.

Competitive history

Iván García has turned to be a professional diver in 2009 in the FINA World Aquatics Championships. From then on, representing Mexico, he has been competing for FINA World Junior Diving Championships, FINA World Aquatics Championships, Youth Olympic Games, Olympic Games, FINA Diving World Cup, FINA Diving World Series, Pan American Games and Central American and Caribbean Games. He has won many medals of those competitions from 2010. He is an Olympic silver medalist in 2012 and a bronze medalist in YOG(Youth Olympic Games) in 2010. In the FINA Diving World Cup in 2014, he won his first medal in the individual 10m Platform in a world-class competition. What's more, he has won two gold medals in the Pan American Games in 2011, four gold medals in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2010, 2014, and 2018.

with Germán Sánchez
with Zuñiga Adan

with Jonathan Ruvalcaba
with Arantxa Chávez

^with Andreas Isaac Villarreal
Veracruz, MEX held two legs of 2010 FINA Diving World Series.
Guadalajara, MEX held two legs of 2013 FINA Diving World Series.
With different pairs.

References

1. "Diver Profile: Ivan Garcia". divemeets.com. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
2. "Athlete Overview: Ivan Garcia Navarro". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
3. "LONDON 2012 DIVING,SYNCHRONIZED DIVING 10M PLATFORM MEN-FINAL". Official website of the Olympic Movement. 30 July 2012.
4. "LONDON 2012 DIVING,10M PLATFORM MEN-FINAL". Official website of the Olympic Movement. 12 August 2012.
5. Booth, Robert (11 August 2012). "Tom Daley bounces back to reach Olympic Games individual diving final". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
6. "¡México es plata en clavados!". Sportspedia México. Sportspedia México. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
7. "FINA/NVC DIVING WORLD SERIES 2015-Beijing, CHN". 15 March 2015.
8. "DIVING RULES" (PDF). Official website of FINA. FINA. 17 February 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015.
9. "Aachen 2008 - Boys 10M RESULTS (ARCHIVES)". Official website of FINA. FINA. 15 October 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
10. "HistoFINA-DIVING MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS" (PDF). Official website of FINA. FINA. 31 January 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015.
11. "HistoFINA-DIVING MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS" (PDF). Official website of FINA. FINA. 31 January 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015.
12. "19th FINA Diving World Cup 2014 - Shanghai (CHN)-RESULTS". Official website of FINA. FINA. 25 July 2014. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014.

External links

• Iván García at World Aquatics
• Iván García at IAT Database Diving (in German)
• Iván García at Olympedia

• 1993 births
• Mexican male divers
• Sportspeople from Guadalajara, Jalisco
• Divers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
• Divers at the 2011 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico
• Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Divers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Olympic divers for Mexico
• Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in diving
• Olympic silver medalists for Mexico
• Living people
• World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving
• Pan American Games medalists in diving
• Divers at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Summer World University Games medalists in diving
• Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico
• Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
• Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
• FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Mexico
• Divers at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in diving
• Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
• Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
• 21st-century Mexican sportsmen