Lysanne Richard
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1981年08月30日) 30 August 1981 (age 43) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Canada |
| Sport | High diving |
Lysanne Richard (born 30 August 1981)[1] is a Canadian high diver and acrobat. She represented Canada at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia and she finished in 5th place in the women's high diving event.[2] She was not able to represent Canada at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships as she had to withdraw from the competition after sustaining a neck injury.[3]
In 2016, she won the FINA Athlete of the Year award in her category (women's high diving).[3]
In 2018, she won the bronze medal in the 2018 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.[1] She also won the bronze medal in the 2019 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
She was one of the housemates in the second season of Big Brother Célébrités , the Quebec celebrity version of the international reality show Big Brother.
Prior to discovering high diving, she has a career as a trained acrobat and aristic trampolinist with the Cirque du Soleil.[4]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b "Lysanne Richard". Red Bull Cliff Diving. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Women's high diving – Final results". 2015 World Aquatics Championships. Archived from the original on 2018年08月20日. Retrieved 2015年08月04日.
- ^ a b "Canadian Lysanne Richard, high diver of the year, withdraws from aquatics worlds". www.cbc.ca/. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). 21 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ "High diver extraordinaire Lysanne Richard".
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