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Jennifer Kay Bellamy Chandler (born June 13, 1959) is a retired American diver who attended the University of Arizona, and won a gold medal in diving in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. [ 1 ] Chandler was born on June 30, 1959 in Langdale, Alabama,and started diving when she was nine.
Additionally, Potter was chosen as World Diver of the year in springboard competition in 1970, 1971 and 1972. Potter was a member of the 1968, 1972 and 1976 U.S. Olympic diving teams. She was selected to the 1980 U.S. Olympic diving team, but due to the U.S. boycott of the games that year, Potter was unable to compete.
Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 – March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956. She won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1956 – the second woman to do so, after Ann Curtis .
Team USA diver Alison Gibson is ready to talk about her 2024 Paris Olympics experience after making quite the splash. “My feet were bleeding. My heels were painfully bruised from hitting the ...
Synchronized divers Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook won silver in the women’s 3-meter synchronized springboard event on Saturday, securing America’s first medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Their ...
Jessica Parratto is an eight-time USA Diving National Champion in women's platform and platform synchro. At the age of 17 she competed at her first world event, the 2015 World Aquatics Championships . [ 2 ]
Vazquez competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games representing Team Mexico and became the first female Olympic diver in UNC history. She finished sixth in the finals in the women’s 3-meter ...
She is the first woman to win the three major diving world titles. [1] Wilkinson retired in 2008. After nine years of retirement, she returned to competition in 2017 and placed second at Nationals. She trained for her fourth Olympic Games (2021) at Texas A&M University's swimming and diving facilities but did not qualify. [2]