Anabelle Smith

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Anabelle Smith
Anabelle Smith 2010.jpg
Smith at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1993-02-03) 3 February 1993 (age 31)
Malvern, Australia [1] [2]
Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in) [3]
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
Sport Diving
ClubGannets Diving Club [1]
Victorian Institute of Sport [4]
Coached byHui Tong [2]
Medal record
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 3 m synchro
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Doha 3 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Shanghai 3 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Budapest 3 m synchro
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham 3 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Delhi 10 m synchro
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 3 m synchro
World Cup
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2014 Shanghai 3 m synchro

Anabelle "Belle" Smith (born 3 February 1993) is an Australian diver. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games champion in the 3 metre synchronized springboard. [5] She competed in the 3 m springboard synchronized event at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal in 2016, and was placed fifth in 2012. [4]

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Diving

Smith competes in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform synchro events. [6] [7] She has a diving scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport [2] and is a member of Gannets Diving Club. [2] She trains at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre. [2] She competes with Sharleen Stratton, following the retirement of her former partner Briony Cole. [8]

Smith represented Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she earned a bronze medal in the 10 m synchro platform with Cole. [2] Competing with Stratton she won a bronze medal in the 3 m synchro springboard at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships with a score of 306.90. [8] At the 2012 FINA Diving Grand Prix in Madrid she and Stratton finished second in the 3 m springboard synchro, scoring 293.58. [6]

Before the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Smith severely injured the middle finger on her right hand, when it was squashed by metal plates of a weight training machine. She returned to diving after three months and wore a hand brace for another five months. She did not fully recover the mobility in that finger. [4]

Smith qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and competed in the Women's 3-metre springboard. She managed to get to the semi-finals. [9]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England, Smith and her partner Maddison Keeney won the gold medal in the 3 metre synchronized springboard with a score of 316.53 points, which was less than 20 points ahead of silver medalists Ng Yan Yee and Nur Dhabitah Sabri of Malaysia. [5] [10]

Personal life

Smith is of maternal Mauritian ancestry. She originally aspired to become a paediatrician, but abandoned the career path after realising she did not have the emotional control to work with sick children. [11]

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