Germán Sánchez (diver)

Germán Sánchez

Germán Sánchez (2016)
Personal information
Full name	Germán Saúl Sánchez Sánchez
Nickname(s)	Duva
Born	(1992-06-24) 24 June 1992 (age 24) Guadalajara, Mexico
Residence	Guadalajara, Mexico
Height	167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Country	Mexico
Event(s)	Diving 10 m, 10 m synchro
Partner	Iván García
Medal record Men's diving Representing  Mexico Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games - 2 – World Championships - 1 – World Cup - 1 - Pan American Games 1 - – Central American and Caribbean Games 2 - - Summer Universiade - - 2 World Junior Championships - 1 - Summer Olympics 2016 Rio de Janeiro 10m platform 2012 London Sync. platform World Championships 2015 Kazan Sync. platform FINA Diving World Cup 2012 London Sync. platform Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara Sync. platform Central American and Caribbean Games 2010 Mayagüez 10m platform 2010 Mayagüez Sync. platform Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan Sync. platform 2013 Kazan Team World Junior Championships 2010 Tucson 10m platform

Germán Saúl Sánchez Sánchez (born 24 June 1992) is a Mexican diver. He is nicknamed "Duva". At the age of 16, he competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for the individual 10 metre platform and came in 22nd with a score of 399.35 in the preliminary. He won one gold medal in the 2011 Pan-American Games. He qualified to participate at the 2012 Summer Olympics by his performance at the 2012 FINA Diving World Cup where he achieved the silver medal alongside Iván García, to participate in both individual and synchronized 10 metre platform. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he won a silver medal in the 10m Synchronized Platform with his partner Iván García with a high score of 468.90. In the individual 10m Platform, Germán Sánchez came the 14th with a score of 477.30 in the semi-final. At 2016, Germán Sánchez took part in his third Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the Synchronized Platform, he and his partner Iván García didn't perform as well as 2012 and only came the 5th with a score of 423.30. Twelve days later, Germán Sánchez came up in the final in Men's 10m Platform after ranking only 12th in the preliminary and 9th in the semi-final. To everyone's surprise, he performed his best and won the silver medal with a high score of 532.70. He became the third Mexican athlete to win an Olympic silver medal in Men's 10m Platform after Joaquín Capilla(1952) and Álvaro Gaxiola(1968). He is also the only Mexican diver who has won Olympic medals in both individual event and synchronized event.

Germán Sánchez is a talented diver who can dive quite 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 4½ Somersaults-Tuck 109C(3.7), Back 3½ Somersaults-Tuck 207C(3.3), Reverse 3½ Somersaults-Tuck 307C(3.4), Inward 4½ Somersaults-Tuck 409C(4.1), Forward 2½ Somersaults 3 Twists-Pike 5156B(3.8) and Armstand Back 3 Somersaults-Tuck 626C(3.3). The total difficult degrees of his dives are amazing 21.6, which is the world's third greatest following Iván García(MEX) and Yang Jian(CHN)! Germán Sánchez is able to dive either the most difficult dive or the second most difficult dive in five of the six diving groups(forward, backward, reverse, inward, and twisting groups). Among these dives, 409C is the most difficult dive being used all over the world currently. In 2012 London Olympic Games, Germán Sánchez finished his difficult dives with his partner Iván García to an almost perfect extent, which awarded them a silver Olympic medal-the best performance of Mexicans in synchronized diving. However, due to the quite difficult dives, he cannot perform perfectly all the time. It is common for him to perform unsteadily.