Four-time Olympic cham­pion Greg Louga­nis is widely con­sid­ered the great­est diver in his­tory. Dur­ing his illus­tri­ous career, Greg became the only male to sweep both the 3m and 10m div­ing events in con­sec­u­tive Olympic Games (’84 and ’88), and earned a total of 5 Olympic medals, 5 World Cham­pi­onship titles and 47 national titles (more than any­one in U.S. history).
Greg mem­o­rably hit his head on the spring­board in Seoul, but showed courage and tenac­ity when he returned to the board and per­formed the best dive of the com­pe­ti­tion, even­tu­ally win­ning gold. In 1984, Greg received the AAU’s James E. Sul­li­van Award for out­stand­ing achieve­ments. The fol­low­ing year, he was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. In 1987, he won the Jesse Owens Award. In 1993, he was inducted into the Inter­na­tional Swim­ming Hall of Fame. And in 1994, he was pre­sented with the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Robert J. Kane Award.
His 1995 auto­bi­og­ra­phy, Break­ing the Sur­face spent five weeks as the New York Times #1 best seller. Cur­rently, Greg is a men­tor for the US Olympic div­ing team, a judge for the Red Bull Cliff Div­ing Tour, a dog agility expert, and a moti­va­tional speaker. He is the sub­ject of a feature-length doc­u­men­tary film, due to be released in 2013 and the star of ABC’s prime-time com­pe­ti­tion show, SPLASH.