Wendy Wyland

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Wendy Wyland Diving
Personal information
Surname: Janna Wendy Wyland
Nationality: United StatesUnited States United States
Discipline (s) : Diving
Birthday: November 25, 1964
Place of birth: Jackson, Mississippi
Date of death: September 27, 2003
Place of death: Rochester, New York
Size: 159 cm
Weight: 50 kg

Janna Wendy Wyland (born November 25, 1964 in Jackson , † September 27, 2003 in Rochester ) was an American diver . She jumped in the 3 m artificial and in the 10 m high diving. From the tower she won the Olympic bronze in 1984 and became world champion in 1982.

Wyland started diving at the age of six. At the age of 14 she moved to Mission Viejo to train at the local training center under the trainer Ron O'Brien. She jumped for the Mission Viejo Nadadores club . Wyland won her first national title from the 10-meter tower in 1981 and her first international title a year later at the World Championships in Guayaquil . At the Pan American Games in Caracas in 1983 , Wyland won her only medal in jumping with silver from the 3-meter board, and she also won gold from the tower. Wyland participated in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and won the bronze medal from the tower. However, it benefited from the absence of the diver from the Soviet Union and the GDR, who missed the games due to the Olympic boycott. At the 1986 World Cup in Madrid , Wyland again won bronze from the tower, it was her last medal win at an international championship.

In the years that followed, Wyland was repeatedly set back by injuries. She started a comeback attempt in the early 1990s , but could no longer build on her previous successes. She then ended her active career for good.

Wyland later worked, among other things, as a trainer for young jumpers. She died in 2003, presumably of complications from a brain aneurysm . In her honor , the Wendy Wyland Memorial Diving Invitational takes place annually in Fort Lauderdale , where she was also inducted into the water diving hall of fame .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. US Olympic Diver Wendy Wyland Dies at 38. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 29, 2012 ; accessed on January 7, 2012 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swimmingworldmagazine.com
  2. Wendy Wyland in the International Swimming Hall of Fame , accessed January 7, 2012
  3. Wendy Janna VanDerWoude. In: Find a grave. Retrieved January 7, 2012 .
  4. ^ Invitational Honors Late Champ Wyland. Retrieved January 7, 2012 .