- Chantelle Newbery
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Medal record Women's Diving Competitor for 
AustraliaOlympic Games Gold 2004 Athens 10m Platform Bronze 2004 Athens Springboard Synchro World Championships Silver 2005 Melbourne 10m Platform Synchro Bronze 1998 Perth 3m Springboard Commonwealth Games Gold 1998 KL 1m Springboard Gold 2006 Melbourne 10m Platform Synchro Silver 1998 KL 3m Springboard Silver 2006 Melbourne 3m Springboard Silver 2006 Melbourne 10m Platform Chantelle Lee Newbery (née Michell) (born 6 May 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian diver, and olympic champion. Her first international success was at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia, where she won a bronze medal in the 3m Springboard event. Later that year Chantelle became a Commonwealth Champion by winning the gold medal in the 1m Springboard event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She also won the silver medal 2 days later in the 3m Springboard.
At the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympic Games she finished fourth in the Synchronised 3m Springboard Event. But the highlight of her diving career was winning the gold medal in the 10m Platform event at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games ahead of Lao Lishi of China and fellow Australian, Loudy Tourky. Chantelle is one of only a handful of women who have tasted Olympic success after becoming mothers.
Chantelle took time away from diving for almost a year while pregnant with her fist child. She gave birth to her son Jet in 2002. In May, 2004, Chantelle married Robert Newbery to allow them to compete at the Athens Olympics as husband and wife. Their second son, Ryder, was born in 2006.
In 2009 she told Australian magazine Woman's Day that she was admitting herself to a psychiatric hospital for severe depression which has seen her attempt suicide twice this year.[1]
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Olympic Diving Champions in Women's 10 metre Platform 1912: Greta Johansson (SWE) • 1920: Stefanie Clausen (DEN) • 1924: Caroline Smith (USA) • 1928: Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston (USA) • 1932 – 1936: Dorothy Poynton-Hill (USA) • 1948: Vicki Draves (USA) • 1952 – 1956: Pat McCormick (USA) • 1960: Ingrid Krämer (EUA) • 1964: Lesley Bush (USA) • 1968: Milena Duchková (TCH) • 1972: Ulrika Knape (SWE) • 1976: Elena Vaytsekhovskaya (URS) • 1980: Martina Jäschke (GDR) • 1984: Zhou Jihong (CHN) • 1988: Xu Yanmei (CHN) • 1992 – 1996: Fu Mingxia (CHN) • 2000: Laura Wilkinson (USA) • 2004: Chantelle Newbery (AUS) • 2008: Chen Ruolin (CHN)
Commonwealth Diving Champions in Women's 1 metre Springboard 1990: Mary DePiero (CAN) • 1994: Annie Pelletier (CAN) • 1998: Chantelle Michell (AUS) • 2002: Irina Lashko (AUS) • 2006: Blythe Hartley (CAN) • 2010: Jennifer Abel (CAN)
Categories:- Australian female divers
- Olympic divers of Australia
- Divers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Sportswomen from Melbourne
- Australian Institute of Sport alumni
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in diving
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