It is offered with its original suspension ribbon and presentation box, the reverse uninscribed, and the edge lettered DIVING / MEN / PLATFORM. One final golden momentĪ 60-millimeter gold medal in Men’s 10-Meter Platform at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, marked Louganis’ final appearance as a competitor at the Olympics and it carries an estimate of $800,000 to $1,200,000. His total of 754.41 was 92 points ahead of his nearest competitor. After all those years this was my chance, and I had trouble not thinking about the final outcome.” Even though I tried to concentrate on nailing each individual dive, I got caught up in wanting to win gold. Louganis recalled his feelings during the event in his memoir, writing, “Springboard was my first event, and from the start I was steady and focused, until the middle of the final round. The 60-millimeter medal is uninscribed on the reverse, with edge lettering of DIVING / SPRINGBOARD / MEN. I, of course, like always was convinced that if I didn’t win that medal, I would be a complete failure.” 1984 Los Angeles goldĬarrying an estimate of $600,000 to $900,000 is the first gold medal won by Louganis at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, awarded in the Men’s 3-Meter Springboard. “Yes, I could dive well, and maybe I could win a gold, but I was still young and inconsistent,” he wrote in his 1995 memoir Breaking the Surface, explaining, “I was capable of scoring 10s but I was just as capable of scoring 2s. Louganis came into that Olympic Games with high expectations.

It carries an estimate of $200,000 to $300,000 and is uninscribed, but for NATATION (French for “swimming”) on the edge. The auction includes his first Olympic medal: a silver 60-millimeter medal awarded in the Men’s Ten-Meter Platform, from the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, when he was just 16. boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980, where he was a favorite to win,” especially since he won gold medals in both the springboard and the platform events at the 1979 Pan-American Games. Bonhams noted, “he likely would have had 2 more gold medals had it not been for a U.S. He earned five Olympic medals, five world championship titles, and 47 national titles in his career.

Louganis is the only male athlete to win back-to-back gold medals in both springboard and platform events at the Olympic Games, where he won in 19.

14 following a world tour with stops in New York and London. Three Olympic medals from American diver Greg Louganis will be presented at Bonhams in Los Angeles on Sept.

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