Anabelle Smith

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Anabelle Smith
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Smith at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Personal information
Full nameAnabelle Luce Smith
Born (1993-02-03) 3 February 1993 (age 32)
Malvern, Victoria, Australia [1] [2]
Height159 cm (5 ft 3 in) [3] [4]
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
CountryAustralia
Sport Diving
ClubGannets Diving Club [1]
Victorian Institute of Sport [5]
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 Luce Smith (born 3 February 1993) is an Australian diver. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games champion in the 3 metre synchronized springboard. [6] 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. [5]

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Diving

Smith competes in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform synchro events. [7] [8] 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. [9]

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. [9] At the 2012 FINA Diving Grand Prix in Madrid she and Stratton finished second in the 3 m springboard synchro, scoring 293.58. [7]

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. [5]

Smith qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and competed in the Women's 3-metre springboard. She managed to get to the semi-finals. [10]

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. [6] [11]

She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics where she came 5th in the 3 metre springboard event alongside Maddison Keeney. [12]

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. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Anabelle Smith". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Anabelle Smith". Diving Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "Anabelle Smith". Rio 2016 Olympics . Archived from the original on 22 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN) 18 June - 3 July 2022 Entry List by NAT Liste des inscrits par NAT As of SAT 25 JUN 2022" (PDF). World Aquatics. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 Anabelle Smith Archived 22 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine . nbcolympics.com
  6. 1 2 "Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Women's Synchronised 3m Springboard Final Results". Longines . 6 August 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  7. 1 2 "Lane 9 News Archive: Cubans Spoils Clean Sweep for Chinese Divers at FINA Diving Grand Prix Stop in Madrid". Swimmingworldmagazine.com. Retrieved 8 July 2012.[ permanent dead link ]
  8. ↑ "Wiggins misses individual Olympic dive". ABC Grandstand Sport. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  9. 1 2 "Diving duo gets Australia off the mark". Australia: ABC News. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  10. ↑ "Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  11. ↑ Lim Teik Huat (6 August 2022). "A fine silver for Wendy-Dhabitah in women's 3m springboard synchro". The Star . Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  12. ↑ "Women's Synchronised 3m Springboard Final Results". olympics.com. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  13. ↑ Tennekoon, Jemima. "ANABELLE SMITH // 27 random facts about me!". Jolyn Clothing. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
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