Chantelle Newbery
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's Diving | ||
Competitor for  Australia
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 2004 Athens | 10m Platform |
| Bronze | 2004 Athens | Springboard Synchro |
| World Championships | ||
| Silver | 2005 Melbourne | 10m Platform Synchro |
| Bronze | 1998 Perth | 3m Springboard |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| Gold | 1998 KL | 1m Springboard |
| Gold | 2006 Melbourne | 10m Platform Synchro |
| Silver | 1998 KL | 3m Springboard |
| Silver | 2006 Melbourne | 3m Springboard |
| Silver | 2006 Melbourne | 10m Platform |
Chantelle Lee Newbery (née Michell) (born 6 May 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian diver, and olympic champion. Her first international success was at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia, where she won a bronze medal in the 3m Springboard event. Later that year Newbery became a Commonwealth Champion by winning the gold medal in the 1m Springboard event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She also won the silver medal 2 days later in the 3m Springboard.
At the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympic Games Newbery finished fourth in the Synchronised 3m Springboard Event. But the highlight of her diving career was winning the gold medal in the 10m Platform event at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games ahead of Lao Lishi of China and fellow Australian, Loudy Tourky. Newbery is one of only a handful of women who have tasted Olympic success after becoming mothers.
In 2005, Newbery was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'.[1]
Newbery took time away from diving for almost a year while pregnant with her first child. She gave birth to her son Jet in 2002. In May, 2004, she married Robert Newbery to allow them to compete at the Athens Olympics as husband and wife. Their second son, Ryder, was born in 2006.
In 2009 Newbery told Australian magazine Woman's Day that she was admitting herself to a psychiatric hospital for severe depression. She had also made suicide attempts.[2]
References
- ↑ "Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'". Ausport.gov.au. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ↑ Fiona Byrne (24 March 2009). "Chantelle Newbery battling chronic depression". The Telegraph (Australia). Retrieved 19 October 2013.
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