Vladimir Barbu

Last updated
Vladimir Barbu
Personal information
Born (1998-08-07) August 7, 1998 (age 25)
Cles, Italy
Sport
Sport Diving

Vladimir Barbu (born 7 August 1998) is an Italian diver. [1] [2]

Trained by Giorgio Cagnotto, he placed 15th at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, finishing fifteenth in the diving competition from the 10 metre platform ,

Barbu also represented Italy in the men's 10 metre platform event at the 2016; 2017, and 2018 European aquatics championships; placing respectively in the 15th, 5th, and 9th positions in the aforementioned yeats. [3]

Barbu also models. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Noemi Batki</span> Italian diver

Noemi Batki is a Hungarian-born Italian former diver. She was a member of the Italian National Diving Team at four Olympic Games and was a member of the sports section of the Italian Army, Centro Sportivo Esercito, and Triestina Nuoto.

Qiu Bo is a Chinese diver. He won the silver medal in the 10 metre platform event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is a four-time world champion at the World Aquatics Championships, winning the gold medal three times in the 10m platform event, consecutively in 2011, 2013 and 2015, and winning the gold medal in the synchronized 10m event in 2011.

James Connor is an Australian diver.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Constantin Popovici</span> Romanian diver (born 1988)

Constantin Popovici is a Romanian platform diver. In 2019, he became the first Romanian to achieve a first-place finish at a stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. He is the 2022 European champion in the 27 metre high dive. He has won multiple medals as part of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series and he won the bronze medal in the 27 metre high dive event at the Abu Dhabi Aquatics Festival in 2021. For the 10 metre platform event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, he placed twenty-third overall.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthew Dixon (diver)</span> British diver (born 2000)

Matthew Lewis Dixon is an English diver who represents Great Britain and specialises in the 10 metre platform event. He won a silver medal at the European Championships in the 10 m synchro platform with Noah Williams as well as two silvers at the Commonwealth Games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xie Siyi</span> Chinese diver

Xie Siyi is a Chinese diver. He has won four gold medals at the World Championships and two Olympic gold medals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matty Lee</span> British diver (born 1998)

Matthew Lee is a British diver and Olympic gold medallist. Adept in both individual and synchronised diving, and across both 3-metre springboard and platform, Lee won the gold medal in 10-metre platform at the 2015 European Games, the mixed 10-metre synchronised platform at the 2017 European Diving Championships and has twice been European junior champion on the 3-metre springboard. At world level, Lee won the silver medal in the mixed 10-metre synchronised platform event at the 2017 World Championships, and at the 2019 World Championships, Lee and Tom Daley won bronze in the 10 m synchro event, as well as gold in July 2021 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Brittany Mae O'Brien is an Australian diver. She competed at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. She attended Pymble Ladies' College and graduated in 2016. She also owns a Jewellery Brand called Draco Jewellery which she launched in 2020.

Lois Mae Toulson is a British diver. A specialist in the 10 metre platform, she won the gold medal at the inaugural European Games in 2015, and the senior European title in 2017. She competed in the women's synchronized ten metre platform event at the 2016 Summer Olympics with Tonia Couch. She won silver in mixed 10m platform synchro at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships with Matty Lee, and gold in the women's synchronized 10 metre platform at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships with Eden Cheng.

Diving at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships was held between 14 and 22 July 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.

Eden Cheng is an English elite diver representing Great Britain and England. She won her first major medal in 2018 at the age of 15, when she won the gold medal at the European Championships in the 10 metre platform synchro with Lois Toulson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Noah Williams (diver)</span> English diver (born 2000)

Noah Oliver Williams is an English diver who represents Great Britain and specialises in the 10 metre platform event. He has won silver medals in the 10 metre synchro platform with Matthew Dixon at the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tanya Watson</span> British-born Irish diver

Tanya Watson is a diver who represents Ireland and specialises in the 10m platform. She competed in the women's 10 metre platform event at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. In 2021, she became the first Irish female diver to qualify for and compete in the Olympic Games. In 2022, she also became the first female diver to quality for and represent Team NI in the Commonwealth Games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oleksiy Sereda</span> Ukrainian diver (born 2005)

Oleksiy Viktorovych Sereda is a Ukrainian diver. He is the 2019 European champion in the 10 metre platform event.

Kevin Berlín Reyes is a Mexican diver. He represented Mexico at the 2019 Pan American Games and he won the gold medal in the men's 10 metre platform event. Berlín and Iván García also won the gold medal in the men's synchronized 10 metre platform event.

Li Zheng is a Chinese diver.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix</span> British diver (born 2004)

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix is a British professional diver. In her breakthrough year of 2022, she became a World junior, two-time European senior, two-time Commonwealth Games and two-time national senior champion across 10 metre platform and 10 metre synchronised platform events, as well as a World senior medallist in the team event.

Nathan Zsombor-Murray is a Canadian diver in the platform events.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gabriela Agúndez</span> Mexican diver (born 2000)

Gabriela Belem Agúndez Garcia is a Mexican diver. She represented Mexico at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in the individual 10 metre platform and synchronized 10 metre platform, winning a bronze medal.

Aidan Heslop is a British diver and high diver who competes internationally representing Wales and Great Britain. In 2024 he won gold in the men's high dive at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.

References

  1. "Diving - Vladimir Barbu (Italy)". www.the-sports.org.
  2. "Federazione Italiana Nuoto - Europei. Barbu in finale dalla piattaforma".
  3. "Database Diving, Datenbank Wasserspringen". www.iat.uni-leipzig.de.
  4. Management, Model. "Vladimir Barbu - a model from Italy". modelmanagement.com.