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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 December 1987 Vienna, Austria |
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Austria |
| Sport | Diving |
| Event(s) | 3 m springboard 1 m springboard |
| Club | Schwimm-Union Wien |
Medal record | |
Constantin Blaha (born 1 December 1987) is an Austrian diver who specializes in the 1 m and 3 m springboard events.
He has represented his country during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where he failed to advance to the semifinal after classifying 22nd in the preliminary round of the men's 3 metre springboard. [1]
He has also participated in both the 2009 and 2011 editions of the World Aquatics Championships: he was eliminated both times in the preliminary of the men's 3 m springboard, classifying 25th in 2009 and 19th in 2011, and also in the men's 1 m springboard, ranking 14th and 30th respectively. [2]
He participated in the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain and ranked 5th and 9th in Men's 1 and 3 metre springboard, respectively.
Blaha once again represented Austria in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He failed to qualify for the semifinals, placing 27th [3]
Alexandre Despatie is a Canadian diver and broadcaster from Laval, Quebec. He was the world champion at the 1 and 3 m springboards from 2005 to 2007 and is the first, and so far only, diver to have been world champion in all three individual categories. He is also a 37-time Canadian senior diving champion and nine-time junior champion, and the most decorated male diver in Canadian history, winning two Olympic silver medals and reaching eight podiums at the world championships, including three gold medals. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Diving competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 10 to August 23, at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.
The Men's 3 metre Springboard, also reported as springboard diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1992 Summer Olympics programme.
Men's 3 metre springboard competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 18 to August 19, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It was an individual diving competition, with dives performed from a flexible springboard three metres above the surface of the water.
Patrick Hausding is a German diver.
The diving competition at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held between July 16–24, 2011 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. Chinese divers dominated, winning all 10 gold medals.
The men's 3 metre springboard competition of the diving events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 21 with the preliminary round and the semifinals and the final on 22 July.
Jennifer Abel is a Canadian former diver. She is currently partnered with Mélissa Citrini-Beaulieu for synchronized diving. She won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 3 m synchro diving event with Émilie Heymans and a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the same event with Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu. Abel is a four-time Commonwealth Games champion in the 1 m and 3 m synchronized springboard; and is also a three-time Pan American Games champion in the 3 m springboard and 3 m synchronized springboard. Her ten medals at the FINA World Championships are a record for most medals by a Canadian in diving at the world championships.
Bryan Nickson Lomas is a former Malaysian diver. Lomas was the youngest Malaysian athlete to qualify for 2004 Summer Olympics when he was 14. He became the country's first world junior diving champion after winning gold at the 3 m springboard event in the World Junior Championships held at Belém, Brazil in 2004. He trained under the coaching of Yang Zhuliang. Lomas is named after the footballer Bryan Robson by his father.
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Daniel Goodfellow is a British diver, active since 2011, and in the senior ranks from 2013.
Austria competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. It was the nation's twenty-seventh appearance at the Summer Olympics. Austrian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The Austrian Olympic Committee confirmed a squad of 71 athletes, 37 men and 34 women, to compete across 22 sports at the Games. The nation's full roster had one more participant than the previous two Games.
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Yona Roshen Knight-Wisdom is a Jamaican diver, who competed at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, and came second in the 1 metre springboard event at the 2019 Pan American Games. He was the first Jamaican male diver at an Olympic Games.
Diving at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships was held between 14 and 22 July 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.
Lena Hentschel is a German diver.
Diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships was held from 12 to 20 July 2019.
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