Lin Yue (water diver)

Lin Yue
Personal information
Nationality:	People's Republic of China
Discipline (s) :	Tower / synchronized jumping
Birthday:	July 24, 1991
Place of birth:	Guangdong
Size:	164 cm
Weight:	58 kg

Lin Yue , Chinese  林 跃 , Pinyin Lín Yuè (born July 24, 1991 in Chaozhou , Guangdong ) is a Chinese diver .

Lin has been one of the world's top diving players since 2005. At the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne , the Beijing man and his partner Huo Liang won the gold medal in synchronized jumping from the tower. He also won bronze in singles. As part of the Grand Prix series, he has won over 20 competitions so far, including numerous individual competitions. In the World Series, he won four events - one of which was an individual competition - three times second and one third. He celebrated his greatest success with his partner Huo Liang by winning the gold medal in tower synchronized jumping at the 2008 Summer Olympics in his native Beijing. At the following World Championships in Rome in July 2009, both also won the high diving competition.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Lin managed to repeat his Olympic victory in synchronized jumping from the tower with Chen Aisen .

Web links

• Lin Yue's profile at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Lin Yue in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Lin is the family name here, Yue is the first name.