Alexandre Despatie

DON'T MISS: 19th Commonwealth Games - Day 8: DivingAlexandre Despatie PicturesCatriona Le May Doan and Alexandre Despatie Photos Posted by Gaylord April 16, 2009   --> Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie was born on June 8, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He began diving at age 5 in his own backyard pool, and in the 2000 Summer Olympics finished in 4th place in the 10 metre platform. French Canadian diver Despatie won the 3 metre springboard at the World Aquatic Championship in...Read Full Story

Alexandre Despatie on Tuesday won his ninth Commonwealth Games diving gold after he and fellow Canadian Reuben Ross won the men's 3m springboard synchro title.Despatie and Ross had been trailing Australia's Matthew Mitcham and Ethan Warren going into the final dive but they handled the pressure to pull off a stunning inward 3.5 somersault to take the title.Their score of 430.35 was enough to beat Mitcham and Warren, who had to settle for silver with Malaysia's Bryan Lomas and Ken Nee Yeoh in...Read Full Story

Alexandre Despatie was born on January 8,1958,Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Alex is a Canadian Diver from Quebec. Alex was the World champion at the 1 and 3 m springboards from 2005 to 2007, diver to have been World champion in the three categories (1, 3 and 10 m platform). He is also a 36-time Canadian senior diving champion who began diving at the age of 5 in his own backyard pool.Read Full Story

Canada's Alexandre Despatie on Monday won the 3m springboard diving title in Delhi, his eighth Commonwealth Games gold medal since his first appearance in Kuala Lumpur in 1998.Despatie, still only 25, from Montreal, added to his 1m springboard title won on Sunday, which made him the first Canadian to win seven Commonwealth golds.Reuben Ross, also from Canada, came second in the 3m springboard, with Grant Nel of Australia in third."Now I can prepare for the London Olympics in 2012," Despatie...Read Full Story

Jennifer Abel on Tuesday won the Commonwealth Games women's 1m springboard diving, as Canada added another gold to its collection.The 19-year-old from Laval took the title with a winning score of 301.75. Australia's Sharleen Stratton was in silver with Canada's Emilie Heymans in bronze position.The win caps a good year for Abel. She picked up silver on the 3m springboard and bronze in the 3m synchro with Heymans at the Spain Grand Prix. The pair also won bronze at the FINA World Cup."I was...Read Full Story

French-Canadian diver, Alexandre Despatie (born, June 8, 1985), captured the hearts of Canadians when he won a gold medal on the 10M diving board at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and suddenly became an overnight celebrity. Since then, he has accomplished what no other diver has in history. At the 2005 World Championships, cheered on by a partisan home crowd, Alexandre became the first diver to be world champion on all three boards. He claimed the gold medal on the 1M and 3M in Montreal to go...Read Full Story

China's He Chong followed up his Olympic gold with a world championship in the 3-meter springboard Thursday, pulling off one of the most difficult dives on his final attempt to beat out American Troy Dumais and Canadian star Alexandre Despatie.He finished with the dive known as 5156B — a forward 2 1/2 somersault with three twists in pike position — and received scores ranging from 7.0 to 8.0. While both Dumais and Despatie received better marks, He's twisting, turning maneuver had a 3.8...Read Full Story

Canadian 2005 world champion Alexandre Despatie topped the scores in Wednesday's 3m springboard semi-finals at the World Championships here.The 24-year-old had been narrowly pipped by American Troy Dumais in the morning preliminaries but came out on top in the afternoon.Despatie pushed Chinese Olympic champion He Chong into second place, reversing their final positions from Beijing last year.Dumais finished third with China's Zhang Xinhua in fourth, just ahead of Australian 10m Olympic...Read Full Story

« Feist: a Song Made for Sesame Street | Main | Avoid the Dreaded 'Bat Wing' Syndrome! » 07/15/2008 French Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie appears on the cover of L'Actualite magazine looking fitter than ever. He's ready to compete in the Olympics in Beijing. You may remember that Despatie had a trial run at Beijing's Olympic "water cube" in February for the FINA World Cup. Despatie made an appearance on L'Actualite four years ago as well, when he was headed to Athens. To see...Read Full Story

Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie won his seventh Commonwealth Games title by taking the one-metre springboard in Delhi, while Jennifer Abel and Emilie Heymans teamed up to win gold in the women’s three-metre synchro. See the original post here: Despatie wins 7th Commonwealth diving goldRead Full Story