Anabelle Smith
 Smith at the 2010 Commonwealth Games | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 February 1993 Malvern, Australia[1][2] |
| Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in)[3][4] |
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Diving |
| Club | Gannets Diving Club[1] Victorian Institute of Sport[5] |
| Coached by | Hui Tong[2] |
Medal record | |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
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- ^ 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
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Australian female divers
- Australian people of Mauritian descent
- Australian Institute of Sport divers
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in diving
- Divers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic divers for Australia
- Olympic medalists in diving
- Australian sports scientists
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- People from Malvern, Victoria
- Sportswomen from Victoria (state)