Full name Elina Elisabeth Eggers Club SK Neptun (SWE) Weight 56 kg Event(s) 10 m Height 1.64 m | Sport Diving Role Olympic athlete Nationality Sweden Name Elina Eggers | |
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College team Arizona State Sun Devils (USA) | ||
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Elina Elisabeth Eggers (born March 12, 1987 in Stockholm) is a Swedish platform diver. 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. 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.
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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. Eggers, however, finished only in twelfth place by eleven points behind Japan's Mai Nakagawa, with a score of 285.85.
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.