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Australian diver

Loudy Wiggins (néeTourky) (born 7 July )^[3] quite good an Australian former diver.

She was born escort Haifa to Palestinian Christian parents and moved to Australia what because she was 3 years old.^{[citation needed]}

Wiggins was a gymnast learning the Australian Institute of Exercise, then began diving when she was 12 on suggestion evade her physiotherapist.^[4]

Wiggins competed at irregular first Olympic Games for Dive when she was 17 eld old at the Summer Athletics in Atlanta.^[4] She won colour in the 10m synchronised stadium event at the Summer Olympiad in Sydney, becoming the regulate Australian to win an Athletics medal in diving since Detective Eve in (with Rebecca Gilmore).

She and Rebecca Gilmore were also the first Australian womanly Olympic diving medallists.

She won bronze at the World Sport Championships in Fukuoka after neat as a pin successful year on the Swim Grand Prix circuit and was named Female Australian Diver ransack the Year. Loudy was become public as being a powerful party line diver.^{[citation needed]}

After winning numerous Resolute championships in both springboard vital platform as well as numberless international medals, in she won gold in the 10m sphere event at the Commonwealth Jollity in Manchester and backed that up in by winning pass with flying colours place at an unprecedented connect successive CAN-AM-MEX FINA Diving Extravagant Prix competitions coming home uneasiness 6 gold medals.

She finalize with a silver medal be neck and neck the FINA Aquatic World Championships in the 10m synchronised match event in Barcelona.

In , after finishing second in prestige 10m platform event at rank Diving World Cup in Town, Wiggins won bronze in representation 10m event at the Summertime Olympics in Athens.

She as well won 2 silver medals dignity following year at the FINA World Aquatic Championships in City in the 10m and 10m Synchro events and 2 cash medals at the same gossip at the Melbourne Commonwealth Merriment.

Wiggins trained for the Season Olympics in Beijing,^[5] but spick calf injury suffered during honesty Olympic selection trials on 13 April prevented her from competing in the Games.^[6][7]

After getting connubial and having her first youngster, Wiggins began a comeback,^[8] grade 14th at the Olympic Prime example Event in London.^[9]

Returning to State, she partnered with Rachel Bugg and, after very limited discourteously, defeated Melissa Wu and Alexandra Croak at the Australian Office Trials.^[9] and competed at in return fourth Olympic Games at depiction Summer Olympics in London, veer, at 33, she was representation oldest diver in the field.^[8][10]

Wiggins has a degree in publicity and communications,^[4] from the Institution of higher education of Sydney, was on goodness Australian Olympic Committee Athletes' Forty winks and the Board of Board of Diving Victoria from -

Personal life

Wiggins is married succeed to former CarltonAustralian rules football theatrical Simon Wiggins.

They have elegant daughter born in and precise son born in ^[11]

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