Elizabeth Jimie

Elizabeth Jimie
Personal information
Nationality  Malaysia
Born (1992-06-28) 28 June 1992
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport Diving
Event(s) Springboard
Partner Leong Mun Yee

Elizabeth Jimie (born 28 June 1992 in Kuching, Sarawak) is a Malaysian diver, who specialised in individual and synchronised springboard events.[1] She won the gold medal, along with her partner Leong Mun Yee, in the women's 3 m synchronised springboard event, and added the bronze for the 1 m springboard at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand. She is also a two-time bronze medalist at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.

Jimie qualified for the women's 3 m individual springboard event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after finishing fifth in the Olympic test event.[2] She finished twenty-first in the preliminary rounds of the competition, with a score of 253.50 points, tying a position with her diving partner Leung Mun Yee.[3]

References

  1. "Elizabeth Jimie". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  2. "Four divers make it to the Olympics". The Malaysian Insider. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  3. "Women's 3m Springboard Preliminary". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 2 December 2012.

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