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- ↑ "Women's high diving – Final results". 2015 World Aquatics Championships. Archived from the original on 2018-08-20. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
- 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.
- ↑ "High diver extraordinaire Lysanne Richard".
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