Luis Uribe (diver)

Luis Felipe Uribe Bermudez (born 3 September 2001) is a Colombian diver. At the 2022 South American Games, he won gold medals in the 1 metre springboard, 3 metre springboard, and 3 metre synchronised springboard. At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, he placed fourth in the 3 metre springboard and seventh in the 3 metre synchronised springboard. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Junior Championships in the 3 metre synchronised springboard.

Uribe was born 3 September 2001 and is based in the Risaralda Department of Colombia.^[2][3] He has a sister, Viviana Uribe, who is also a competitive diver.^[4]

At the 2018 World Junior Diving Championships, held in Kyiv, Ukraine in July, Uribe won a bronze medal in the 3 metre synchronised springboard event with his partner Daniel Restrepo, finishing with a score of 290.88 points, which was less than 10 points behind the gold medalist duo of Henry McKay and Victor Povzner from Canada.^[5][6] He also placed sixth in the 1 metre springboard with a score of 489.85 points, twelfth in the mixed team event at 233.70 points, and 20th in the 3 metre springboard with a score of 460.15 points.^[6]

In the preliminaries of the 3 metre synchronised springboard at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, held in Budapest, Hungary in June and July, Uribe and his partner Sebastián Morales, ranked fourth with a score of 387.27 points and qualified for the final.^[7] For the final, held later the same day, they placed seventh, scoring a total of 364.62 points for their six dives.^[3][8] The following day, in the preliminaries of the 3 metre springboard, he scored 402.55 points to qualify for the semifinals ranking fourth.^[9] In the semifinals, he improved his score and ranked as the highest-placed Latin American competitor in the round of competition with a score of 411.70 points and overall fourth-rank.^[10][11] He placed fourth in the final the following day, finishing within 17 points of bronze medalist, Jack Laugher of Great Britain, with a score of 457.15 points.^{[3][12][13][14]} From the six dives he executed in the final round of competition, Uribe's highest individual dive ranked third and lowest individual dive ranked seventh, only one diver had a higher ranking lowest individual dive, gold medalist Wang Zongyuan of China whose lowest dive ranked third.^[12]

For the 2022 South American Games, held in October in Asunción, Paraguay, Uribe entered to compete in three events as part of diving competition, the 1 metre springboard, 3 metre springboard, and 3 metre synchronised springboard.^[15] In his first event, the 3 metre synchronised springboard on 2 October, he and his partner Sebastián Morales won the gold medal with a score of 393.06 points, finishing over 49 points ahead of the silver medalists from Brazil.^[16][17] The following day, he won the gold medal in the 3 metre springboard, scoring 55 points ahead of silver medalist and fellow Colombian Sebastián Morales with a final mark of 459.05 points.^{[4][18][19][20]} The fourth and final day, he won a gold medal in the 1 metre springboard with a final mark of 391.05 points.^[21][22][23] His wins helped Colombia rank second in the medal table, only behind Brazil, at the end of 5 October, the fifth day of competition across all sports at the Games.^[24]

• Luis Uribe at World Aquatics