Debbie Fuller
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Full name | Deborah Lynne Fuller | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Debbie" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Montreal, Quebec | 24 June 1966|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Springboard, 1m & 3m Platform, 10m | |||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Pointe-Claire Diving Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Deborah Lynne Fuller (born 24 June 1966) is a former competition diver who represented Canada at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. She won a bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games in and two gold medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.
Early years
Fuller was born in Montreal, Quebec.[1] Her older sister, Wendy Fuller, also competed as an international diver.[2]
Education
Fuller accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she dove for coach Randy Reese's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1984 to 1987.[3] She was recognized as an All-American four times during her American college career, and won the Southeastern Conference (SEC) individual championship in the one-meter springboard diving event in 1985.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Debbie Fuller Archived 2012-11-03 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Wendy Fuller. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- ^ a b Florida Swimming & Diving 2011–12 Media Supplement Archived May 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 62, 64, 79 (2011). Retrieved April 11, 2012.
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Anglophone Quebec people
- Canadian female divers
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Divers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Florida Gators women's swimmers
- Olympic divers of Canada
- Sportspeople from Montreal
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
- Commonwealth Games medallists in diving
- Pan American Games medalists in diving
- Divers at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Canadian diving (sport) biography stubs