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Diving Australia unveils new Logo

Diving Australia have developed a new look with a new logo being unveiled today. This new look has been developed after consulting with a number of stakeholders and we are really pleased with the end result. The symbol took its inspiration from a dive...

Tue 02 Dec 2014

Australian weightlifter Kirsten Wu passed away

*Article Credit: Paul Coffa, General Secretary OWF. Extracted from   www.iwf.net It is with great sorrow that I inform you that 21 year old Kirsten Wu from Brisbane Australia, 2010 Oceania Youth Champion, Australian representative at the ...

Tue 04 Nov 2014

Colonial First State Sports Boost Program

GEORGIA SHEEHAN AND LARA TARVIT FEATURED IN COLONIAL FIRST STATE SPORTS BOOST FACEBOOK PROGRAM World Junior Champions Georgia Sheehan and Lara Tarvit have been chosen to take part in the Colonial First State Sports Boost program. Both Georgia and La...

Fri 24 Oct 2014

FINA Singapore & Malaysian Grands Prix

AUSTRALIAN TEAM ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE A small but talented Australian diving team, headed by Commonwealth Games gold medalist Domonic Bedggood, has arrived in Singapore ahead of this weekend’s FINA Diving Grand Prix. The three-member team of...

Thu 16 Oct 2014

Racism. It Stops With Me.

Diving Australia is proud to have joined forces with some of Australia’s leading businesses, sporting bodies and NGO’s to support the “Racism. It stops with me” campaign. Our organisation has committed to preventing racism by...

Tue 16 Sep 2014

World Junior Championships - Day 6

SHEEHAN WINS SECOND GOLD FOR AUSTRALIA AT JUNIOR WORLD DIVING Queensland's Georgia Sheehan, who two months ago was Australia's youngest competitor at the Commonwealth Games, has won gold at the World Junior Diving Championships in Penza, Rus...

Mon 15 Sep 2014

World Junior Championships - Day 5

TARVIT WINS GOLD FOR AUSTRALIA Lara Tarvit has won gold at the World Junior Diving Championships in Penza, Russia. 17-year-old Tarvit left it to her final dive in the 10-metre platform final to snatch the lead, giving Australia it’s first g...

Sun 14 Sep 2014

World Junior Championships - Day 4

SYNCHRO TEAM ADDS SILVER TO JUNIORS MEDAL COLLECTION Australia’s 3-metre synchro team of Naomi Gowlett and Georgia Sheehan have come tantalizingly close to winning gold at the World Junior Diving Championships in Penza. The Queensland schoo...

Sat 13 Sep 2014

World Junior Championships - Day 3

TODD MAKES IT BRONZE NUMBER THREE FOR AUSTRALIA Two years after setting himself a goal of competing at this year’s World Junior Championships, South Australian diver Ross Todd is today celebrating winning a bronze medal. Todd snuck into the...

Fri 12 Sep 2014

World Junior Championships - Day 2

KEENEY ADDS TO AUSTRALIAN MEDAL TALLY Australia has won a second bronze medal at the FINA Junior Diving World Championships in Russia, with Perth teenager Maddison Keeney finishing third in the 1-metre springboard. The bronze follows a silver and...

Thu 11 Sep 2014

World Junior Championships - Day 1

SHEEHAN GETS AUSTRALIA OFF TO A MEDAL WINNING START Queensland schoolgirl Georgia Sheehan has cemented her reputation as one of Australian diving’s stars of the future with a bronze medal on the opening day of competition at the World Junior C...

Wed 10 Sep 2014

2014 Pan Pacific Masters Games - Gold Coast

The 9th Pan Pacific Masters Games will be held from 1 to 9 November 2014 on the beautiful Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. More than 12,000 participants from Queensland, interstate and overseas are expected to converge on one of the world’s m...

Wed 06 Aug 2014

Commonwealth Games - Day 4

QIN BURSTS INTO DIVING SPOTLIGHT   For so long Esther Qin has been the diver who fills a minor placing at major Australian dive meets, the shy Chinese-born diver whose name could well have been ‘Potential Qin’, so often was it spoken. ...

Sun 03 Aug 2014

Commonwealth Games - Day 3

MITCHAM STARS ON ANOTHER DAY OF DIVING DRAMA   Matthew Mitcham has made no secret he’d like one day to make a career in the theatre – and he’s getting plenty of drama training in his current day job! In fact the entire Australian...

Sat 02 Aug 2014

Commonwealth Games - Day 2

ROLLER COASTER RIDE FOR AUSTRALIAN DIVERS   The competitive life of an elite level sportsperson, with very few exceptions, is inevitably a roller coaster ride of emotions. There will be days they feel on top of the world, bullet proof and unbeatab...

Fri 01 Aug 2014

Commonwealth Games - Day 1

Four years ago Matthew Mitcham walked away from the Delhi Commonwealth Games clutching four silver medals. His disappointment at not being able to win a single gold was one of the driving forces behind the Beijing gold medalist's decision to push o...

Thu 31 Jul 2014

Countdown to #Glasgow2014 - Melissa Wu

Our countdown concludes today as we take a look at our final athlete, the mighty Melissa Wu! Melissa Wu seems like she’s been on the diving scene for a very long time, and even though she’s just 22 she is one of Australia’s most ...

Wed 30 Jul 2014

Countdown to #Glasgow2014 - Matthew Mitcham

The countdown continues and today we look at Matthew Mitcham! Matthew Mitcham openly admits he considered quitting diving after the 2012 London Olympics, but in the end his disappointment at not winning gold at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010...

Tue 29 Jul 2014