Chantelle Newbery

Chantelle Newbery ( born May 6, 1977 in Melbourne as Chantelle Michell ) is a former Australian water jumper. She won the 2004 Olympic gold medal in diving.

Your first international appearance was at the World Swimming Championships in Perth in 1998. As a local hero, she won the bronze medal from the 3m board, one of two medals in the water jumping for the Australian team. The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney were held in their home. Together with Loudy Tourky she finished fourth in the synchronized diving from the 3 m board. In individual competition from the board, she was seventh.

After the Olympics, she married her teammate Robert Newbery, 2002, her first son was born. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Chantelle Newbery was there again. In synchronized diving from the board, she won the bronze medal together with Irina Laschko. A sensation she succeeded in diving by winning the gold medal; it was the only individual gold medal, which went not to the Chinese team in 2004. In the swimming world championships in 2005 in Montreal, she won silver in the synchronized diving from the tower along with Loudy Tourky. In individual competition, it was from the tower seventh. 2006 took place after the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 Olympic Games with the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne again important championships in their home country instead. Together with Tourky they won the synchronized diving from the tower. In individual competition from the tower, she won silver behind Tourky, from 3 m board she succumbed to the Canadian Blythe Hartley and won another silver medal.

After the Commonwealth Games Chantelle Newbery took a break from competition, the end of 2006 their second son was born. In 2008, she made ​​her international comeback at the pre-Olympic World Cup in Beijing, where she finished in seventh place from the 3 m board. At the Olympic Games in 2008, they stand and Robert Newbery for the third time in the Australian squad for the second time as a married couple. She took that ranking 14 from 3 m board.

After the 2008 Games, she ended her active career final.