Émilie Heymans

Émilie Heymans
Personal information
Nationality:	Canada
Discipline (s) :	Artistic / tower / synchronized jumping
Society:	Pointe-Claire Diving Club
Birthday:	December 14, 1981
Place of birth:	Brussels
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	62 kg

Émilie Heymans (born December 14, 1981 in Brussels ) is a Canadian diver . It starts in artificial jumping from the 1-meter and 3-meter board as well as in 10-meter tower diving and synchronized jumping. Heymans is a multiple medalist at the Olympic Games and World Championships .

Heymans emigrated to Canada with her parents when she was one year old. She started diving at the age of eleven, after having previously worked in a gymnastics club. In 2003 she was named Diver of the Year in Canada. A year later she moved from the CAMO Aquatic Club to the Pointe-Claire Diving Club , where she is trained by Yihua Li. Since 2009 she has only competed in artificial jumping and 3-meter synchronized jumping and no longer starts from the 10-meter tower. She would like to jump to the 2012 Olympic Games in London and then work in the fashion industry.

Heyman's first major success was winning the Junior World Championship in 1997. In 1999 , she also won her first adult medal at the Pan American Games , winning gold in the 10-meter high diving. She took part in the Olympic Games for the first time in 2000 . She was fifth in high diving and won silver in 10-meter synchronized diving with Anne Montminy . In 2004 she competed in all four Olympic disciplines in Athens . She was tenth on the 3-meter board, fourth on the 10-meter tower, seventh in the 3-meter synchronized jumping and bronze in the 10-meter synchronized jumping, this time alongside Blythe Hartley . In 2008 in Beijing she competed in the 10-meter high diving and won silver and thus also managed a medal in her third Olympic participation.

Heymans was also successful at world championships. In 2003 she became world champion on the 10-meter tower in Barcelona , in 2009 she won silver from the 3-meter board in Rome and in 2011 in Shanghai with Jennifer Abel silver in the 3-meter synchronized jumping. She collected twelve more medals at the Commonwealth Games and the Pan American Games , including six gold medals.

Heyman's mother, Marie-Paule van Eyck, was a successful fencer. She participated for Belgium in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal .

Web links

• official homepage
• Émilie Heymans in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of the Canadian Union

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography of Émilie Heymans. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 28, 2011 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )