Tandi Jane Indergaard (

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Gerrard) (born 25 February 1978 in

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) is a South-African born English diver, who specialized in individual and synchronized springboard events. Since 2001, Indergaard holds a dual citizenship with South Africa and Great Britain in order to compete internationally for diving. She is a three-time British diving champion and a bronze medalist for the synchronised springboard at the

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, Australia.

Diving career

Indergaard, a native of

, started her sporting career as a gymnast at the very young age until she took up diving in 1992. She achieved her early success by winning the gold medal for diving as a demonstration sport at the

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, and represented

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at the

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, where she met British-born Adrian Hinchliffe, who later served as her personal coach. In 2000, Indergaard graduated from the

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, with a degree in physical education. She was also selected for South Africa to compete at the

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, but the South African Olympic Committee had decided not to send her. In April 2001, Indergaard moved from her native South Africa to England in order to pursue her further career in diving. She later became a member of the British national diving team (''

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''), and joined the City of Leeds Diving Club, under her personal and head coach Hinchliffe. Indergaard represented her current nation

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at the

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, where she and partner Jane Smith finished outside the medals in fourth place for the synchronised springboard, with a score of 302.25. After Smith's retirement in 2005, she teamed up with partner Hayley Sage, and together captured the bronze medal at the

, Australia. In the same year, she eventually married her close friend and Norwegian-born physiotherapist Ove Indergaard in Leeds. At the

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, Indergaard and her partner Sage, however, displayed a disastrous performance in the women's 3 m synchronised springboard event, finishing only in eighth place, with a final score of 278.25. Shortly after the Olympics, Indergaard immediately retired from her sporting career, and currently works as a physical education teacher for teenagers at the

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, in Leeds.

References

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profileTeam GB Profile
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