Loudy Wiggins was born on 7 July 1979 and is an Australian former diver.
10 Facts About Loudy Wiggins
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Loudy Wiggins was born in Haifa to Palestinian Christian parents and moved to Australia when she was 3 years old.
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Loudy Wiggins competed at her first Olympic Games for Diving when she was 17 years old at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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Loudy Wiggins won bronze at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka after a successful year on the Diving Grand Prix circuit and was named Female Australian Diver of the Year.
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Loudy Wiggins finished 2003 with a silver medal at the FINA Aquatic World Championships in the 10m synchronised diving event in Barcelona.
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In 2004, after finishing second in the 10m platform event at the Diving World Cup in Athens, Loudy Wiggins won bronze in the 10m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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Loudy Wiggins won 2 silver medals the following year at the 2005 FINA World Aquatic Championships in Montreal in the 10m and 10m Synchro events and 2 gold medals at the same events at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Loudy Wiggins trained for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but a calf injury suffered during the Olympic selection trials on 13 April 2008 prevented her from competing in the Games.
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Loudy Wiggins has a degree in media and communications, from the University of Sydney, was on the Australian Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission and the Board of Directors of Diving Victoria from 2012 - 2016.
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Loudy Wiggins is married to former Carlton Australian rules football player Simon Loudy Wiggins.