Michael Hixon
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July 16, 1994 Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Event(s) | 3 meter springboard, 3 meter springboard synchro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Hixon (born July 16, 1994) is an American diver. He won the silver medal with Sam Dorman in the synchronized 3 meter springboard at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He also won bronze at the 2015 World Championships in the 1 meter springboard.
Hixon was born in Amherst, Massachusetts to Mandy and David Hixon. He has an elder brother Matthew. He studied at Amherst Regional High School. In 2013, he enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin, but moved after a year to Indiana University in Bloomington.
Hixon's mother is a diving coach at the University of Massachusetts and started coaching Michael Hixon diving when he was aged seven. He started entering competitions two years later. He was also involved in other sports – basketball, football and lacrosse, but chose to concentrate on diving. He decided to forego football in the freshman year in high school, and although he also later made the varsity basketball team, scheduling conflicts meant that he had to abandon basketball.
Hixon began diving at the national level when he was 12 and has won the 1-meter competition at the national championships three years running. Hixon is a six-time junior U.S. champion, and won two bronze medals, in the 1 meter and 3 meter events, at the 2009 Junior Pan-American Diving Championships in Calgary.
He subsequently paired with Kristian Ipsen to win a silver at the 2010 FINA World Junior Diving Championships in Tucson, Arizona in the 3 meter synchronized springboard event, but only managed a tenth place finish in the 3 meter solo event.
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