Brittany Broben
.jpg) Broben being interviewed by Fox Sports News at the Welcome Home parade in Sydney | |||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Britt | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||
| Born |
23 November 1995 Gold Coast, Queensland | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Gold Coast | ||||||||||||
| Height | 160 cm (63 in) (2012) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) (2012) | ||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 10 m platform diver | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Brittany Broben (born 23 November 1995) is a former Australian diver. She won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics in the 10 m platform diving event with a score of 366.50, behind Chen Ruolin of China
Personal
Nicknamed Britt, Broben was born on 23 November 1995 in Gold Coast, Queensland.[1] She grew up in the Gold Coast of Queensland[2][3] and still lives there as of June 2012.[1] Brittany is a student at Marymount College, located in Burleigh Heads.[2]
Broben is 160 centimetres (63 in) tall and weighs 48 kilograms (106 lb).[1]
Diving
Broben is a 10 m platform diver.[2][4] She has a diving scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport.[1] She trains at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre.[1] As of 2012, she is coached by Xiangning Chen.[1]
At the 2008 Australian Open Championships, Broben earned first place in the 1 m and 3 m springboard events.[1] At the 2009 Australian Junior Elite Championships, she finished first in the 10 metre platform. At the 2009 British Junior Elite Championships, she finished first in the 3 metre platform, second in the 10 metre platform and synchronised platform, and bronze in the 1 metre.[1] At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Fort Lauderdale, she came in second in the Girls B 10 metre Platform event. At the 2010 Australian Open Championships, she finished first in the 10 metre platform.[1] She competed in the 2011 FINA World Championships. That year, she competed at the 10 metre platform at the USA Grand Prix, Fort Lauderdale where she won a gold medal. She went on to earn a bronze medal at the 2011 Australian Open Championships in the 10 metre platform.[1] She earned second place at the 2012 Australian Diving Championships in the 10 m platform.[3][5][1]
At the 2012 London Olympics, Broben won a silver medal in the 10 m platform diving event.[2][4][3] She was sixteen years old at the time of the Games.[6] Going into the Olympics, her training schedule started at 4:15am, where she and a parent would drive from the family home on the Gold Coast to the Brisbane Aquatic Centre where she trained.[2]
In October 2016, Broben announced her retirement from diving at the age of 20, due to a shoulder injury.[7]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Brittany Broben". Diving Australia. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Craddock, Robert (30 June 2012). "Big is beautiful for Opals". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- 1 2 3 Williamson, Brett (4 April 2012). "Diving into life". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- 1 2 "Big stage to benefit 'show pony' Mitcham". Nine MSN. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ↑ "Wiggins misses individual Olympic dive". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ↑ "Leading diving medal contenders". Nine MSN. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ↑ Boswell, Tom. "Shoulder injury forces Gold Coast diver Brittany Broben into retirement". Gold Coast Bulletin. Retrieved 6 October 2016.