{{Short description|American diver}} {{more citations needed|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox sportsperson | image =Randy Dickison.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | nationality = | sport = Diving |disability = |disability_class = | event = | club = | coach = | birth_date = | birth_place = Minneapolis, United States | death_date = 1996 | death_place = Belgium | retired= | height = | weight = | pb = | medaltemplates = }}
'''Randy Dickison''' (died 1996) was a high diver who made attempts at the world record high dive.
Dickison attended Phillips Junior High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota with fellow future high diver Dana Kunze.<ref name="Walters">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/laso-schaller-dana-kunze-dave-lindsay-high-diving-cliff-jump-365349 |title=Laso Schaller's World-Record Jump Was Not a World-Record Dive |first=John |last=Walters |date=August 24, 2015 |website=Newsweek |access-date=May 2, 2020}}</ref> In 1982 he executed a {{convert|30|m|ft|abbr=on}} dive and landed head first. He attempted 4 world records for highest dives from {{convert|51.5|m|ft|abbr=on}}, {{convert|51.8|m|ft|abbr=on}}, {{convert|52.4|m|ft|abbr=on}}, and {{convert|53|m|ftin|abbr=off}}.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} He attempted to set the high diving world record in 1985 with a {{convert|174|ft|8|in|m}} dive at Ocean Park Hong Kong, but fractured multiple bones of his left leg in the attempt.<ref name="Walters"/>
Dickison died during a stunt dive into a giant sponge in Belgium in 1996.<ref name="Walters"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mcall.com/entertainment/things-to-do/mc-allentown-fair-dana-kunze-high-dive-20140828-story.html |title=World record high diver talks about daredevil moves at Allentown Fair |first=Mariella |last=Miller |journal=The Morning Call |date=August 28, 2014 |access-date=May 2, 2020}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpYWnpLUllA Video of Dickison's Hong Kong world record attempt]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickison, Randy}} Category:1996 deaths Category:Year of birth missing Category:American male divers Category:Diving deaths Category:Male high divers Category:Sport deaths in Belgium Category:Sportspeople from Minnesota