Lysanne Richard

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Lysanne Richard
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Born (1981-08-30) 30 August 1981 (age 43)
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CountryCanada
Sport High diving

Lysanne Richard (born 30 August 1981) [1] is a Canadian high diver and acrobat. She represented Canada at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia and she finished in 5th place in the women's high diving event. [2] She was not able to represent Canada at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships as she had to withdraw from the competition after sustaining a neck injury. [3]

In 2016, she won the FINA Athlete of the Year award in her category (women's high diving). [3]

In 2018, she won the bronze medal in the 2018 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. [1] She also won the bronze medal in the 2019 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.

She was one of the housemates in the second season of Big Brother Célébrités , the Quebec celebrity version of the international reality show Big Brother.

Prior to discovering high diving, she has a career as a trained acrobat and aristic trampolinist with the Cirque du Soleil. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Lysanne Richard". Red Bull Cliff Diving. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "Women's high diving – Final results". 2015 World Aquatics Championships. Archived from the original on 2018-08-20. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  3. 1 2 "Canadian Lysanne Richard, high diver of the year, withdraws from aquatics worlds". www.cbc.ca/. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). 21 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "High diver extraordinaire Lysanne Richard".


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