Arturo Miranda (diver)

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Arturo Miranda Diving
Personal information
Nationality: CanadaCanada Canada
Society: Pointe-Claire Diving Club
Birthday: 19th January 1971
Place of birth: Havana
Medals

Arturo Miranda (born January 19, 1971 in Havana , Cuba ) is a former Cuban - Canadian diver .

Life

Miranda started swimming as a teenager. In 1992 he qualified as a diver for the national team of Cuba for the Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona , but was not sent to the competition from his home country for financial reasons and because of allegedly insufficient chances of winning a medal.

In 1995 Miranda came to Toronto , where he initially worked as a swim coach . He finally decided to resume his sporting career as a water diver and was able to successfully enter the national Canadian swimming scene. Arturo Miranda started during his career for the Pointe-Claire Diving Club in Montreal .

Miranda was able to qualify in the Canadian team for participation in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . However, due to a short-term protest due to uncertainties regarding his nationality , he was ultimately unable to compete in Australia .

In the following years, however, Miranda was able to achieve international sporting success again and again. In 2005 Miranda was eleventh in the individual from the three-meter board at the swimming world championships in his Canadian homeland, Montreal . In synchronized jumping from the three-meter board, he and his then partner Reuben Ross reached 16th place. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games , he and his partner Alexandre Despatie won the gold medal in three-meter synchronized jumping.

At the swimming world championships in Melbourne in 2007 he won the silver medal with despair in synchronized jumping from the three-meter board. At the Pan American Games 2007 in Rio de Janeiro , with Despatie, he also won the bronze medal in synchronized jumping from the three-meter board. In the same year Miranda and Despatie won the gold medal from the three-meter board at the Canada Cup.

The sporting highlight of Arturo Miranda's career was his participation in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . With despair he reached 5th place in synchronized jumping from the three-meter board.

Miranda is married to a Canadian he met in Cuba and lives in Montreal. He is the trainer of Alexandre Despatie and Reuben Ross.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Arturo Miranda CBC News from August 4, 2008
  2. ↑ Profile Arturo Miranda www.canoe.ca
  3. ↑ Swimming World Championships in Melbourne  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. rp online from March 19, 2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  4. ↑ Olympic Divers from Montreal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. About.com: Montreal  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / montreal.about.com
personal data
SURNAME Miranda, Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian diver
DATE OF BIRTH 19th January 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba