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TRACY WILSON & ROB MCCALL TROPHY
for Outstanding Pairs Team
Anne Montminy and Emilie Heymans - Diving
Nominated by the Canadian Amateur Diving Association
Three days after winning the tower bronze medal, Anne Montminy paired with 18-year-old Emilie Heymans to win the silver medal in a new Olympic event, 10m synchronized diving. Four days earlier, Heymans had finished the individual event in fifth place, and the Pan American Games gold medallist was hungry for a medal. Montminy, who narrowly missed the individual gold, was also eager to become the first Canadian diver to win two Olympic medals.
The silver medal was a grand achievement for Montminy and Heymans given their distinct techniques and different body sizes--the Olympic bronze medallist stands 5'-3" and weighs 114 pounds while her teammate is three inches taller and 11 pounds heavier--and the fact that they only started practicing for synchro six weeks before the Olympics began.
Testing their repertoire at a Grand Prix competition in Italy in August, the dynamic duo won silver with solid dives and good synchronization to establish themselves as Olympic favourites. "We're definitely in the medal hunt," Montminy predicted after only four practices, "...once we're used to each other's timing, we're going to do really well."
She was right, although it wasn't obvious at the start of the Olympic competition. The Canadians stood in sixth place after two dives. However, they finished strongly, jumping into bronze medal position after the third dive, and into second after the fourth, a reverse 2 _ tuck---the dive that landed them solidly behind the eventual gold medallists, Li Na and Sang Xue of China.
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