Elina Eggers
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Surname: | Elina Elisabeth Eggers | ||||||
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Discipline (s) : | Artistic diving / high diving | ||||||
Society: | SK Neptune Stockholm | ||||||
Birthday: | March 12, 1987 | ||||||
Place of birth: | Stockholm | ||||||
Size: | 164 cm | ||||||
Weight: | 56 kg | ||||||
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Elina Elisabeth Eggers (born March 12, 1987 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish diver . She starts for the SK Neptun Stockholm club and competes in artificial jumping from the 1-meter and 3-meter board as well as in the 10-meter tower diving.
Eggers played her first international title fights at the 2006 European Championships in Budapest , where she was eliminated from the 1-meter board and 10-meter tower in the preliminary fight. The following year she reached a semi-finals for the first time at the World Championships from the 10-meter tower. Eggers won her only medal at an international championship so far at the European Championships in Eindhoven in 2008 , where she came third on the 10-meter tower and won bronze. She qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . From the 10-m tower she reached the final there and was twelfth. Eggers retired from the tower at the 2009 World Championships in Rome after the preliminary fight, at the 2010 European Championships in Budapest she reached the final again and finished eleventh.
Eggers is studying at Arizona State University and starts for the university's sports team, the Sun Devils . In 2011, she won her first medal at college championships from the tower. So far, Eggers has won 13 titles at the Swedish Championships.
Web links
- Elina Eggers in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile of Elina Eggers at the Institute for Applied Training Science
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elina Eggers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 13, 2012 ; accessed on February 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ ASU junior dives into academic, athletic honors. Retrieved February 29, 2012 .
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SURNAME | Eggers, Elina |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eggers, Elina Elisabeth (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish diver |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |