Emily Boyd (born 12 March 1995) is an Australian diver who competes in the 3m and 10m individual events, as well as the 10m synchronised. She is a commonwealth bronze medallist in the mixed synchronised 10 m platform competing alongside

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Early life

Boyd was born in

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, England. At the age of 12 years, her family moved to Australia settling in

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, Queensland. Boyd started out as

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whilst in England but was later attracted to diving after watching a friend's training session. After moving to Australia, she went to a school holiday clinic at

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and she got hooked up to diving fully.

Career

She was part of the Australian team for the 2012 FINA World Junior Championships, before making the senior titles in Barcelona the following year where she finished 4th in the 10m platform synchronised with Lara Tarvit. Soon afterwards, she announced she would be competing for

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, before returning to the Australian team in 2017. In June 2022, she was named in the Australian diving team for the

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. Competing along with

, the duo placed third and won the

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in the mixed synchronised 10 m platform at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in

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. Boyd is member of the Diving

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team.

Personal life

In a short interview with

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, Boyd mentioned that she had suffered a fractured

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, achilles’ tendon rupture, a

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whilst in a supermarket in the past was proud to have overcome all these prior to making her debut Commonwealth Games appearance. She also suffers from depression.

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* Living people 1995 births Australian female divers Divers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in diving Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Sportswomen from Queensland 21st-century Australian people Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Warrington English emigrants to Australia {{Australia-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub