Loudy Wiggins

Khuloud Loudy Wiggins (born 7 July 1979, Haifa, Israel ) is a former Australian water jumper. Up to her marriage to the Australian football player Simon Wiggins in the spring of 2007 she came under her birth name as Loudy Tourky in appearance.

The only 1.47 meters wide Loudy Wiggins lived and trained under Salvador Sobrino in Sydney, Australia. Your first international success came in 1997 at the FINA World Cup with a 9th place in the art of jumping from the 3- meter board. In 1998, she repeated this success in 1999 she reached the fourth place.

At the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 she won with her partner Rebecca Gilmore bronze in synchronized diving from the 10 - meter tower, behind a native of China, Li Na and Sang Xue ( gold) and the Canadians Émilie Heymans and Anne Montminy (silver), and 4th place in synchronized diving from the 3- meter board. The taking place in the same year World Championships they reached number 3 from the 10 meter tower. At the World Championships 2001, she was in the single discipline from the 10 - meter platform synchronized diving third and fifth respectively from the 3- meter springboard and 10 - meter tower.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won bronze again, this time in the individual competition of the 10 - meter tower, behind the Australian Chantelle Newbery ( gold) and the Chinese Lao Lishi (silver). In the swimming world championships in 2005 in Montreal, they also won the individual competition from the 10 - meter tower, the silver medal, behind the American Laura Wilkinson ( gold ) and before the Chinese Tong Jia (bronze).

2006 succeeded Wiggins despite an injury the synchronized diving from the 10 - meter platform ( with her partner Chantelle Newbery ) and in individual to win two gold medals. In 2008, she was planning to participate in Beijing again with Newbery at the Summer Olympic Games, another injury prevented this but.

After the 2008 Olympics Wiggins ended her active career. She now lives in Melbourne.

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