Anabelle Smith
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Born | (1993-02-03) 3 February 1993 (age 31) Malvern, Australia[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in)[3][4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Gannets Diving Club[1] Victorian Institute of Sport[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Hui Tong[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anabelle "Belle" Smith (born 3 February 1993) is an Australian diver. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games champion in the 3 metre synchronized springboard.[6] She competed in the 3 m springboard synchronized event at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal in 2016, and was placed fifth in 2012.[5]
Diving
Smith competes in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform synchro events.[7][8] She has a diving scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport[2] and is a member of Gannets Diving Club.[2] She trains at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre.[2] She competes with Sharleen Stratton, following the retirement of her former partner Briony Cole.[9]
Smith represented Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she earned a bronze medal in the 10 m synchro platform with Cole.[2] Competing with Stratton she won a bronze medal in the 3 m synchro springboard at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships with a score of 306.90.[9] At the 2012 FINA Diving Grand Prix in Madrid she and Stratton finished second in the 3 m springboard synchro, scoring 293.58.[7]
Before the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Smith severely injured the middle finger on her right hand, when it was squashed by metal plates of a weight training machine. She returned to diving after three months and wore a hand brace for another five months. She did not fully recover the mobility in that finger.[5]
Smith qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and competed in the Women's 3-metre springboard. She managed to get to the semi-finals.[10]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England, Smith and her partner Maddison Keeney won the gold medal in the 3 metre synchronized springboard with a score of 316.53 points, which was less than 20 points ahead of silver medalists Ng Yan Yee and Nur Dhabitah Sabri of Malaysia.[6][11]
She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics where she came 5th in the 3 metre springboard event alongside Maddison Keeney.[12]
Personal life
Smith is of maternal Mauritian ancestry. She originally aspired to become a paediatrician, but abandoned the career path after realising she did not have the emotional control to work with sick children.[13]
References
- ^ a b Anabelle Smith. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b c d e f "Anabelle Smith". Diving Australia. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ Anabelle Smith Archived 22 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ "19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN) 18 June - 3 July 2022 Entry List by NAT Liste des inscrits par NAT As of SAT 25 JUN 2022" (PDF). World Aquatics. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ a b c Anabelle Smith Archived 22 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
- ^ a b "Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Women's Synchronised 3m Springboard Final Results". Longines. 6 August 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Lane 9 News Archive: Cubans Spoils Clean Sweep for Chinese Divers at FINA Diving Grand Prix Stop in Madrid". Swimmingworldmagazine.com. Retrieved 8 July 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Wiggins misses individual Olympic dive". ABC Grandstand Sport. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Diving duo gets Australia off the mark". Australia: ABC News. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ "Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ Lim Teik Huat (6 August 2022). "A fine silver for Wendy-Dhabitah in women's 3m springboard synchro". The Star. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ "Women's Synchronised 3m Springboard Final Results". olympics.com. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Tennekoon, Jemima. "ANABELLE SMITH // 27 random facts about me!". Jolyn Clothing. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
External links
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- Anabelle Smith at World Aquatics
- Anabelle Smith at IAT Database Diving (in German)
- Anabelle Smith at Olympics.com
- Anabelle Smith at Olympedia
- Anabelle Smith at the Australian Olympic Committee
- v
- t
- e
- 2006:
Briony Cole & Sharleen Stratton (AUS)
- 2010:
Jennifer Abel & Émilie Heymans (CAN)
- 2014:
Alicia Blagg & Rebecca Gallantree (ENG)
- 2018:
Esther Qin & Georgia Sheehan (AUS)
- 2022:
Maddison Keeney & Anabelle Smith (AUS)