David Pichler (born September 3, 1968) is an American Olympic diver representing the United States in 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where Pichler was elected team captain. Pichler and Mark Ruiz won the synchronized platform final at the FINA-USA Diving Grand Prix in May 2000 scored 301.26 points, ahead of 298.50 for Australians Mathew Helm and Robert Newbery. Pichler attended Butler Senior High School and The Ohio State University. In 1996 he publicly came out as gay. References David Pichler Biography and Statistics on Sports-reference Gay Swimmers David Pichler page 1968 births Olympic divers of the United States Divers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2000 Summer Olympics American LGBT sportspeople Living people Gay sportsmen LGBT divers American male divers 21st-century LGBT people