

In addition to his spectacular diving career Greg Louganis has co-written a best-selling book titled Breaking the Surface and has had minor roles in films such as Dirty Laundry, Power Moves, and Watercolors. However, he completed the primaries and went on to win two gold medals. During the preliminaries at the 1986 Olympics he hit his head on the springboard and suffered a concussion.


Louganis won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the tower and spring board events at the 19 Summer Olympics. At the age of sixteen he competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal earning the silver medal in the tower event. Gregory Efthimios Louganis, born in El Cajon, CA is an Olympic gold medal diver.
