2018 Summer Senior National Diving Championships

Diving Plongeon Canada – Ottawa, August 1^st, 2018 – The 2018 Summer Senior National Diving Championships to be held from August 3^rd to 5^th in Gatineau will be an excellent opportunity for many up-and-coming divers to make a name for themselves with Canadian fans.
 
The competition, hosted by Club de plongeon Gatineau in collaboration with Diving Plongeon Canada and Plongeon Québec, will feature 35 athletes hailing from across the country at Centre Sportif Gatineau.
 
The 16 women and 19 men in contention will compete on 1m, 3m and 10m platform. All three competition days are set to begin at 10 a.m. with two finals scheduled each day: women’s 1m and men’s 3m on Friday, August 3^rd; men’s 1m and women’s 10m platform on Saturday, August 4^th; and the women’s 3m and men’s 10m on Sunday. Admission is free.
 
Celina Toth, a member of Canada’s national diving team, will be one to watch. The 26-year-old hailing from St.Thomas, Ontario finished 9^thon 10m at this year’s Commonwealth Games and won bronze in the event at last year’s World University Games. She will take part in the 10m event on Saturday.
 
Another diver to watch will be Peter Thach Mai who won his first international medal on the FINA Grand Prix Circuit in Madrid just a few weeks ago. Peter is also defending national champion on the 3m springboard.
 
Ten athletes who recently competed at the FINA World Junior Diving Championships in Kiev, Russia will also be taking part. Of the ten, keep an eye on Ottawa’s Henry McKay and Vaughan Ontario’s Victor Povzner, gold medalists on 3m synchro at the World Juniors and Cedric Fofana, who took bronze in the 3m in the 14-15 age group in Kiev.
 
McKay will take part in the men’s 1m and 3m events in Gatineau, as will Povzner. Fofana will take part in all three men’s events.
 
The other world junior athletes returning from Kiev who will be competing in Gatineau this weekend are: Tatiana Conn, Margo Erlam, Mélodie Leclerc, Mia Vallée, Laurent-Gosselin-Paradis, Bryden Hattie and Nathan Zsombor-Murray.
 
Two athletes will be representing the Gatineau club: Jeremy Déry and Félix Lafortune. McKay represents Nepean-Ottawa. A dozen clubs will be represented at the event with Montreal’s CAMO 12-strong delegation being the largest. 
 
Here is the complete list of divers taking part in the 2018 Summer Senior National Diving Championships with coach and club listed:

WOMEN
 

NAME	EVENTS	CLUB	COACH	PROVINCE
Siobhan Henderson	1M, 3M	AGAMI	Nick Lachance	QC
Marie-Laurence Forest	1M, 3M	ARO	Olivier Duchesneau	QC
Coral Strungnell	1M, 3M	BOARDWORKS	Tommy McLeod	BC
Celina Toth	10M	BOARDWORKS	Tommy McLeod	BC
Tatiana Conn	1M, 3M, 10M	CALGARY	Charlie Tu	AB
Margo Erlam	3M	CALGARY	Charlie Tu	AB
Ashley McCool	3M	CALGARY	Charlie Tu	AB
Eloise Bélanger	1M, 3M	CAMO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Simone Leathead	1M, 3M	CAMO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Mélodie Leclerc	1M, 10M	CAMO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Romane Saito	1M, 3M	CAMO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Mia Vallée	3M	CAMO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Rebecca Quesnel	10M	IND-ON	Gilles Emptoz-Lacote	ON
Alyssa Clairmont	1M, 3M, 10M	REGINA	Laura Desautels	SK
Elaena Dick	10M	TDA	Gilles Emptoz-Lacote	ON
Aimee Wilson	1M, 3M	TDA	Gilles Emptoz-Lacote	ON

 
MEN
 

NAME	EVENTS	CLUB	COACH	PROVINCE
Cédric Fofana	1M, 3M, 10M	ARO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Louka Gauthier	1M	ARO	Dany Boulanger	QC
Ryan Grover	1M, 3M	BOARDWORKS	Tommy McLeod	BC
Bryden Hattie	3M, 10M	BOARDWORKS	Tommy McLeod	BC
Vincent Chartier	10M	CAMO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Alexandre Corriveau	3M, 10M	CAMO	Cesar Henderson	QC
Gabriel Corriveau	3M, 10M	CAMO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Frédéric Gosselin	1M, 3M	CAMO	Stéphane Lapointe	QC
Christophe Gosselin	1M, 3M	CAMO	Isabelle Cloutier	QC
Laurent Gosselin-Paradis	10M	CAMO	Aaron Dziver	QC
Peter Thach Mai	1M, 3M	CAMO	Cesar Henderson	QC
Joshua Inglis	1M, 3M	FOREST CITY	Lioudmila Zakharenko	ON
Jeremy Déry	1M	GATINEAU	Mélanie Duff	QC
Félix Lafortune	1M	GATINEAU	Mélanie Duff	QC
Nicholas Nepomuceno	10M	IDIVE	Igor Kopecky	BC
Henry McKay	1M, 3M	NEPEAN-OTTAWA	Gilles Emptoz-Lacote	ON
Victor Povzner	1M, 3M	OPTIMAL	Alexander Povzner	ON
Nathan Zsombor-Murray	10M	PCDC	Yihua Li	QC
Bjorn Markentin	1M, 3M, 10M	REGINA	Laura Desautels	SK

 

The event will be live-streamed on the Web at www.cbcsports.caand www.radio-canadasports.ca.
 

About Diving Plongeon Canada
Diving Plongeon Canada (DPC) was established in 1967 as a not-for-profit organization to promote the growth and awareness of the sport in this country. As a member of FINA, the world’s governing body of aquatic sports, DPC contributes to the development of globally accepted standards of excellence in diving and supports the rules and regulations of international competition. Representing nine provincial diving associations, 67 local diving clubs and close to 4,000 high-performance athletes, DPC shares a national commitment to advance the art and sport of diving and to position Canada as the number one diving nation of the world. For information, visit www.diving.ca.