Meaghan Benfeito

Meaghan Benfeito

Personal information

Nationality:

Canada

Discipline (s) :

Artistic / tower / synchronized jumping

Society:

CAMO Natation Montreal

Birthday:

March 2, 1989

Place of birth:

Montreal

Size:

155 cm

Weight:

50 kg

Medals

Olympic games
bronze	2012 London	Synchronous 10 m
bronze	2016 Rio de Janeiro	10 m
World championships
bronze	2005 Montreal	Synchronous 10 m
silver	2013 Barcelona	Synchronous 10 m
silver	2015 Kazan	Synchronous 10 m
silver	2015 Kazan	Mixed synchron 10 m
Commonwealth Games
bronze	2006 Melbourne	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2014 Glasgow	10 m
gold	2014 Glasgow	Synchronous 10 m
silver	2018 Gold Coast	10 m
silver	2018 Gold Coast	Synchronous 10 m
Pan American Games
bronze	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Synchronous 3 m
bronze	2011 Guadalajara	10 m
silver	2011 Guadalajara	Synchronous 10 m

Meaghan Benfeito (born March 2, 1989 in Montreal ) is a Canadian water diver . She starts both in artificial jumping from the 1-meter and 3-meter board and in 10-meter tower diving. She jumps with Jennifer Abel in 3-meter synchronized competitions and with Roseline Filion in 10-meter synchronized competitions . She is trained by Cesar Henderson.

Benfeito took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in part. In the 10 m synchronized jumping she was seventh with Filion. At the 2005 World Championships in Montreal she won the bronze medal with Filion in the 10-meter synchronized competition. In 2007 in Melbourne and in 2009 in Rome , the duo finished fourth, and in 2011 seventh in Shanghai . In 2009 and 2011, Benfeito also finished fourth on the 10-meter tower, her best individual results at world championships to date. The bronze medal was won by Benfeito with Filion in the 10 m synchronized jumping at the Commonwealth Games 2006 in Melbourne and with her former partner Kelly MacDonald in the 3 m synchronized jumping at the Pan American Games 2007 in Rio de Janeiro . At the Pan American Games 2011 in Guadalajara , Benfeito won bronze in the individual from the tower and silver with Filion in the 10-meter synchronized jumping. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won another bronze medal in the 10-meter competition.

In 2009 Benfeito won a competition for the first time as part of the FINA Diving Grand Prix. She is a multiple Canadian champion.

Web links

Meaghan Benfeito in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Portrait of the Canadian Union

personal data
SURNAME	Benfeito, Meaghan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian diver
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal