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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Mark Lenzi, who won a gold medal in diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, died on Monday in Greenville, N.C. He was 43.By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 9, 2012
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Mark Lenzi, who won in 1992, making the 1996 U.S. team.
His death was announced by his alma mater, Indiana University .
Lenzi's hometown newspaper, The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., said he had been hospitalized for two weeks after having fainting spells. His mother, Ellie, told the newspaper her son's blood pressure was too low.
Lenzi won the three-meter springboard in Barcelona. Four years later, he came out of a brief retirement and won the bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Lenzi won 2 N.C.A.A. diving championships and 18 international competitions and was twice named the United States diver of the year. He was the diving coach at East Carolina University from 2009 to '11.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy; his mother; two brothers; a sister; and his grandmother,
Lenzi started his athletic career as a wrestler. He enjoyed the competition but did not enjoy starving himself to reach the needed weight.
When he decided to give up wrestling in favor of diving after watching it on television, he said, people were upset.
"I don't think anybody believed in me," he said. "My dad wanted me to wrestle because he thought I could get a college scholarship. We argued so bad that I left home for two weeks and stayed with a friend. Then my dad compromised and said I could do both."
Lenzi, though, never wrestled again. When he entered his first diving competition and won, he received five scholarship offers.
"My dad said, 'O.K., you're diving, not wrestling,' " he recalled.
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