Elina Eggers
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Stockholm, Sweden
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| Full name | Elina Elisabeth Eggers | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Swedish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 March 1987 Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 10 m | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Arizona State Sun Devils (USA) | ||||||||||||||
| Club | SK Neptun (SWE) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Elina Elisabeth Eggers (born 12 March 1987) is a Swedish platform diver.[1] She is a thirteen-time Swedish diving champion, a four-time All-American athlete, and a two-time first-team Pac-10 All-Academic honoree.[2] She also won a bronze medal in the women's platform at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with a score of 319.65, earning her a spot on the Swedish team for the Olympics.[3]
Eggers represented Sweden at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed as a lone female diver in the women's platform event. She was ranked sixteenth out of twenty-nine divers in the preliminary rounds, until a much better performance in the semi-finals left Eggers in ninth position, attaining a score of 315.45.[4][5] Petre, however, finished only in twelfth place by eleven points behind Japan's Mai Nakagawa, with a score of 285.85.[6]
Eggers is also a member of the swimming and diving team for the Arizona State Sun Devils, and an economics graduate at the Arizona State University in Glendale, Arizona.[7]