Émilie Heymans
Émilie Heymans ( born December 14, 1981 in Brussels ) is a Canadian water jumper. It starts in both the art of jumping from 1 -meter and 3 -meter board and in the 10 -meter platform diving and synchronized diving. Heymans is a multiple medalist at Olympic Games and World Championships.
Heymans emigrated at the age of one year with her parents to Canada. At age eleven, she came to the water jumping after she was active in a sports club before. In 2003 she was elected to Canada for water -jumper of the year. A year later, she moved from the CAMO Aquatic Club at Pointe -Claire Diving Club, she is trained there by Yihua Li. Since 2009, she only comes into play on the springboard and 3m synchronized diving and will not boot from the 10 - m tower. You would like up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London next jump and then work in the fashion industry.
Heymans first major success was winning the Junior World Championship title 1997. 1999 followed at the Pan American Games also its first medal in the adult area, she won gold in the 10 -meter platform diving. She took in 2000 for the first time in the Olympic Games. In diving, she was fifth in the 10 -meter synchronized diving they won with Anne Montminy silver. In 2004, she competed in Athens in all four Olympic disciplines. From the 3 -meter board, she was ten, from the 10 m tower Fourth, in the 3 -meter synchronized diving and seventh in the 10 -meter synchronized diving, she won bronze, this time on the side of Blythe Hartley. Beijing 2008 she appeared in the 10 -meter platform diving, winning silver and managed so well in her third Olympic participation medal.
Heymans was also successful at the World Championships. In 2003 she became World Champion in Barcelona from the 10 - m tower, 2009, she won silver in Rome from 3 -meter board and in 2011 in Shanghai by Jennifer Abel silver in the 3 -meter synchronized diving. A further twelve medals she collected at the Commonwealth Games and the Pan American Games, including six gold medals.
Heymans mother, Marie- Paule van Eyck, was a successful fencer. She participated in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal for Belgium.