Iván Alejandro García Navarro (born 25 October 1993) is a Mexican diver.[1] He is nicknamed "Pollo" ("Chicken").[2] He competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He won a silver medal in the 10m Synchronized Platform with his partnerGermán Sánchez with a high score of 468.90.[3] In the individual 10m Platform, García came the 7th with a score of 521.65.[4]
He won two gold medals in both the individual and synchronized 10m Platform in the 2011Pan-American Games. At the2012 Summer Olympics inLondon García won the silver medal in thesynchronized 10 metre platform diving, with his partnerGermán Sánchez.[5] At the 2015 Pan American Games, he retained the gold medal in the individual 10m platform back to back. In Rio 2016 he finished 10th on the individual platform.[6]
Iván García is a talented diver who can perform the most 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 Forward4+1⁄2 Somersaults-Tuck 109C(3.7), Back3+1⁄2 Somersaults-Tuck 207C(3.3), Reverse3+1⁄2 Somersaults-Tuck 307C(3.4), Inward4+1⁄2 Somersaults-Tuck 409C(4.1), Forward2+1⁄2 Somersaults 3 Twists-Pike 5156B(3.8) and Armstand Back 2 Soms2+1⁄2 Twists-Free 6245D(3.6).[7] The total difficult degrees of his dives is 21.9, which is the highest in the world.[citation needed] Iván García is able to dive either the most difficult dive or the second most difficult dive in each of the six diving groups(forward, backward, reverse, inward, twisting and armstand groups). Among these dives, 409C is the most difficult dive being used around the world currently.[8] In 2012 London Olympic Games, Iván García and his partnerGermán Sánchez placed second in the synchronized platform—the best performance of Mexicans in synchronized diving. However, due to the difficulty of his dives, he cannot perform perfectly all the time.[citation needed]
Iván García has turned to be a professional diver in 2009 in theFINA World Aquatics Championships. From then on, representingMexico, he has been competing for FINA World Junior Diving Championships,[9]FINA World Aquatics Championships,Youth Olympic Games,Olympic Games,FINA Diving World Cup,FINA Diving World Series,[10]Pan American Games andCentral American and Caribbean Games. He has won many medals of those competitions from 2010.[11] He is an Olympic silver medalist in 2012 and a bronze medalist in YOG(Youth Olympic Games) in 2010. In theFINA Diving World Cup in 2014, he won his first medal in the individual 10m Platform in a world-class competition.[12] What's more, he has won two gold medals in thePan American Games in 2011, four gold medals in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2010, 2014, and 2018.
| Competition | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2018 |
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| Olympic Games, 10 m | 7th | 10th | ||||||||
| Olympic Games, 10 m (synchro) | 2nd@ | 5th@ | ||||||||
| Pan American Games, 10 m | 1st | 1st | ||||||||
| Pan American Games, 10 m (synchro) | 1st@ | 4th? | ||||||||
| Central American and Caribbean Games, 10 m | 1st | 1st | ||||||||
| Central American and Caribbean Games, 10 m (synchro) | 1st@ | 1st^ | ||||||||
| Summer Youth Olympics, 10 m | 3rd | |||||||||
| Summer Youth Olympics, 3 m | 11th | |||||||||
| Summer Universiade, 10 m | 5th | |||||||||
| Summer Universiade, 10 m (synchro) | 3rd@ | |||||||||
| Summer Universiade, team (men) | 3rd | |||||||||
| FINA World Championships, 10 m | 7th | 5th | 4th | |||||||
| FINA World Championships, 10 m (synchro) | 8th@ | 7th@ | 4th@ | 2nd@ | ||||||
| FINA World Championships, Mixed Team Event | 6th* | |||||||||
| FINA World Junior Diving Championships, Group B, 10 m | 5th | |||||||||
| FINA World Junior Diving Championships, Group A, 10 m | 10th | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Cup, 10 m | 3rd | 9th | ||||||||
| FINA Diving World Cup, 10 m (synchro) | 7th@ | 2nd@ | 5th@ | 12th@ | ||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Overall Ranking, 10 m | 10th | 2nd | 10th | 5th | 14th | |||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Overall Ranking, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | 3rd@ | 7th@ | 3rd@# | 3rd@ | 3rd@ | 7th@ | |||
| FINA Diving Grand Prix, Overall Ranking, 10 m (synchro)% | 3rd@ | 2nd@ | ||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Qingdao, China, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m | 8th | 5th | 8th | |||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Beijing, China, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | 6th@ | 3rd# | 3rd@ | ||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m | 8th | 5th | 4th | |||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Dubai, UAE, 10 m (synchro) | 7th@ | 4th# | 2nd@ | |||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, RUS, 10 m | 5th | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Moscow, RUS, 10 m (synchro) | 1st@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, RUS, 10 m | 8th | 9th | ||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Kazan, RUS, 10 m (synchro) | 2nd@ | 6th@ | ||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Sheiffield, GBR, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Edinburgh, GBR, 10 m | 3rd | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Edinburgh, GBR, 10 m (synchro) | 3rd@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, London, GBR, 10 m | 10th | 4th | ||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, London, GBR, 10 m (synchro) | 4th@ | 3rd@ | ||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Veracruz, MEX, 10 m (synchro) | 5th@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Veracruz, MEX, 10 m (synchro)§ | 2nd@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Guanajuato, MEX, 10 m (synchro) | 1st@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Tijuana, MEX, 10 m | 8th | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Tijuana, MEX, 10 m (synchro) | 2nd@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Guadalajara, MEX, 10 m | 2nd | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Guadalajara, MEX, 10 m (synchro) | 1st@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Guadalajara, MEX, 10 m† | 3rd | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Guadalajara, MEX, 10 m (synchro)† | 1st@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Monterrey, MEX, 10 m | 4th | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Monterrey, MEX, 10 m (synchro) | 2nd@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Mérida, MEX, 10 m | 2nd | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Mérida, MEX, 10 m (synchro) | 1st@ | |||||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Windsor, CAN, 10 m | 8th | 8th | 8th | |||||||
| FINA Diving World Series, Windsor, CAN, 10 m (synchro) | 3rd@ | 5th@ |
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§Veracruz, MEX held two legs of 2010 FINA Diving World Series.
† Guadalajara, MEX held two legs of 2013 FINA Diving World Series.
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