Tan Liangde

Tan Liangde
Personal information
Born July 14, 1965
Medal record
Men's Diving
Competitor for  China
Olympic Games
Silver 1984 Los Angeles 3m Springboard
Silver 1988 Seoul 3m Springboard
Silver 1992 Barcelona 3m Springboard
World Championships
Silver 1986 Madrid 3m Springboard
Silver 1991 Perth 3m Springboard
Asian Games
Gold 1986 Seoul 3m Springboard
Gold 1990 Beijing 1m Springboard
Gold 1990 Beijing 3m Springboard
Silver 1982 New Delhi 3m Springboard
Summer Universiade
Gold 1985 Kobe 3m Springboard
Gold 1987 Zagreb 3m Springboard
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tan.

Tan Liangde (simplified Chinese: 谭良德; traditional Chinese: 譚良德; Mandarin Pinyin: Tán Liángdé; Jyutping: Tam4 Leung4 Dak1; born July 14, 1965 in Maoming, Guangdong) is a famous diver from PR China. He won silver medals in three consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 1992. He is currently a coach in Tianjin diving team.

Tan is married to Li Qing, who also won a silver medal in Seoul Olympics, and they have a daughter. The Olympic champions, Hu Jia and Wang Xin, are their students.

References

 1961 – 1963: Shunsuke Kaneto (JPN) •  1965: Rick Gilbert (USA) •  1967: Keith Russell (USA) •  1970: Klaus Dibiasi (ITA) •  1973: Vyacheslav Strakhov (URS) •  1977: ?? Bulatov (URS) •  1979: Aleksandr Kosenkov (URS) •  1981: Sergei Kuzmin (URS) •  1983: Greg Louganis (USA) •  1985 – 1987: Tan Liangde (CHN) •  1991: Li Deliang (CHN) •  1993: Xiong Ni (CHN) •  1995: Fernando Platas (MEX) •  1997: Imre Lengyel (HUN) •  1999: Wang Kenan (CHN) •  2001 – 2003: Wang Tianling (CHN) •  2005: Wang Feng (CHN) •  2007: Peng Bo (CHN) •  2009: Pan Zhaowei (CHN) •  2011: He Chong (CHN)