Alexandre Despatie
June 8, 1985
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

He is the current World champion at the 1-m and 3-m board and is the first diver to have been World Champion in 1-m and 3-m board, and 10-m platform.




Alexandre Despatie won the 2005 Male Athlete of the Year (The Norton H. Crow Award), at The Athletic Performance Awards recognize outstanding athletic performance.

At the Olympics in 2004 in Athens, Greece, he won the silver medal in the men's 3-m springboard competition, but finished out of the medal standings in fourth place in the 10-m platform. This finish was contrary to expectations going into the games, where he was expected to win silver or gold in 10-m platform and not place in the springboard.

At the Olympic games in Sydney in 2000, with a 4th place finish at the 10-m 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.


News
• Gold medal for 3-m board, at Pan Am trials in Vancouver.
• Three gold medals at Canada Cup FINA Grand Prix, 3-m board, 10-m platform, and 3-m synchro.
• Silver for 3m, in Rostock Germany.
• Gold for 3m at 2007 FINA Diving Grand Prix.
• Silver for 3m at 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing China.