Alexander Despatie

Alexandre Despatie

Alexandre Despatie (right), He Chong (centre) and Qin Kai (left), 2008 Olympic medalists
Personal information
Full name	Alexandre Despatie
Born	(1985-06-08) June 8, 1985 (age 31) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Residence	Laval, Quebec, Canada
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
Country	Canada
Event(s)	3 m springboard, 3 m synchro
Partner	Reuben Ross
Former partner(s)	Arturo Miranda
Medal record Men's diving Olympic Games 2004 Athens 3 m springboard 2008 Beijing 3 m springboard World Championships 2003 Barcelona 10 m platform 2005 Montreal 3 m springboard 2005 Montreal 1 m springboard 2001 Fukuoka 10 m platform 2007 Melbourne 3 m springboard 2007 Melbourne Springboard synchro 2009 Rome Springboard synchro 2009 Rome 3 m springboard Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur 10 m platform 2002 Manchester 3 m springboard 2002 Manchester 1 m springboard 2006 Melbourne Springboard synchro 2006 Melbourne 3 m springboard 2006 Melbourne 1 m springboard 2010 New Delhi 1 m springboard 2010 New Delhi 3 m springboard 2010 New Delhi Springboard synchro 2002 Manchester 10 m platform 2006 Melbourne 10 m platform Pan American Games 2003 S. Domingo 3 m springboard 2003 S. Domingo Springboard synchro 2003 S. Domingo Platform synchro 2007 Rio de Janeiro 3 m springboard 2003 S. Domingo 10 m platform 2007 Rio de Janeiro 10 m platform 2007 Rio de Janeiro Springboard synchro

Alexandre Despatie (born June 8, 1985) is a Canadian diver and broadcaster from Laval, Quebec. He was the world champion at the 1 and 3 m springboards from 2005 to 2007 and is the first, and so far only, diver to have been world champion in the three categories (1, 3 and 10 m platform). He is also a 37-time Canadian senior diving champion, and nine-time junior champion. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Despatie began diving at the age of 5 in his own backyard pool.

He first came to public attention at the 1998 Commonwealth Games with an extremely impressive gold medal on the 10 metre platform (which included an unprecedented score of perfect 10s). He was only 13 years old at the time, and the achievement was recorded in the Guinness Book Of World Records 2000.

At the Olympic games in Sydney in 2000, with a 4th-place finish at the 10-metre platform, he was offered the chance to compete in the springboard event in those Games as well, when one of the Canadian divers had to withdraw from the meet due to complications with his citizenship, but declined because he had not been training for that event.

He won the silver medal at the world championships in 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan in the same event, and in 2003 won a gold medal at the World Diving Championships in Barcelona, Spain in the 10 metre platform. He recorded 107.1 for his last dive, which set a new record.

At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Despatie won the gold medal in the three-metre springboard event, followed by three gold medals at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.