Rachel Bugg

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Rachel Bugg
Personal information
Nickname(s)Buggie
NationalityAustralian
Born (1989-03-07) 7 March 1989 (age 34) [1]
Belair, South Australia
Height159 cm (5 ft 3 in) (2012) [1]
Weight56 kg (8 st 11 lb; 123 lb) (2012) [1]
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportDiving
Event(s)10m synchro
ClubDiving South Australia

Rachel Bugg (born 7 March 1989) is an Australian diver. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 10m women's synchronised platform diving event with Loudy Wiggins.

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Personal

Nicknamed Buggie, Bugg was born on 7 March 1989 in Belair, South Australia. [2] She is originally from Adelaide, [3] [4] South Australia. [5] She attended Mercedes College. [6] In 2008, following retirement from diving, she worked on a diploma of beauty therapy. [3] She moved to Brisbane in 2010 in order to improve her diving training [3] and continued to live and train there in 2012. [2]

Bugg is 158 centimetres (62 in) tall. [2]

Diving

Bugg dives in the 10m synchronised platform diving and 10-metre individual event. [5] She started participating in diving when she was twelve years old, switching sports from gymnastics. [4] [7] When she first started in the sport, she did not enjoy it. [4] She is a member of Diving South Australia's diving club [2] and has a diving scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport. [2] As of 2012, she is trained by Hui Tong [2] in Brisbane [3] at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre. [2]

Bugg quit diving prior to the start of the 2008 Summer Olympics due to injury, [3] following the 2008 Australian national diving championships. In her first dive of the competition, she injured her right triceps with a third-grade tear. [3] She resumed diving in the middle of 2009. [3]

Bugg competes internationally in the FINA Gran Prix 10m platform diving events, both as an individual and in synchronised diving with a partner; there are six Gran Prix events scheduled annually. Some notable finishes in 2010 individual events include tenth in Fort Lauderdale in the US and seventh in Madrid; in 2011 her finishes included twelfth in Bolzano, Italy, and fifth in Madrid; and in 2012 she finished fourth at Rostock, Germany. In synchronised diving in 2010, she competed with dive partner Hannah Thek, and finished fifth in Fort Lauderdale in the US; in 2011, they had two second-place finishes: one in Bolzano and the other in Moscow. In 2012, she partnered with Loudy Wiggins, and the pair placed fourth in Fort Lauderdale and second in Montreal. [2]

Bugg was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 10m women's synchronised platform diving event [3] [5] [7] with dive partner Wiggins. [4] [8] Her spot to London was finalised in May 2012. [3] She missed an individual spot after the national trials where she vied for a spot against thirteen other women. [9] [7] Going into the 2012 Olympics, she had ten training sessions a week, with each session lasting three hours. [4]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she and Wiggins finished in 4th place. [10]

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she competed in the individual 10 m platform, and the 10 m platform synchronised with Melissa Wu. [11] [12]

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