CAMO, short for ''Club Aquatique de Montreal'' (), is a swim club based in

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, Canada's

Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard The (), abbreviated CSCR and often referred as ''Centre Claude-Robillard'', is a multi-purpose sport facility, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville. History The was built for the 1976 Summer Olympics. It ...

. CAMO operates in three areas:

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, and

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however, CAMO has had the greatest success in diving.

Swimming

CAMO Natation and its Centre national de natation de Montréal train elite competitive swimmers.

Noted CAMO swimmers

Audrey Lacroix Audrey Lacroix (born November 17, 1983) is a retired Canadian competitive swimmer from Montreal, Quebec. She is the Canadian record-holder in the 200-metre butterfly (short-course and long-course). She is a former world record-holder in the sh ...

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Diving

CAMO's diving club (Le Club de Plongeon CAMO) was formed in 1981 as an official club operated by the City of Montreal. It originally was created to form divers at the "junior" level. Its first major success occurred in 1983 when Sylvie Bernier joined the club. The following year Bernier became the first Canadian to ever win a gold medal in diving, at the

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. The next major highlight in the diving club's history came at the

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. There two of its members, Évelyne Boisvert and Bruno Founier, were members of the Canadian team. Since then CAMO's diving club has constantly been one of the most successful in Canada, both on the junior and on the senior level. Since 1998 its ''International CAMO Invitational'', a world-calibre diving event, has attracted major diving stars from around the world to Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard every year.

Noted CAMO divers

* Sylvie Bernier * Myriam Boileau * Philippe Comtois * Alexandre Despatie *

Blythe Hartley Blythe Hartley (born May 2, 1982) is a Canadian Olympic diver. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta and began diving at age 12. Personal life She went to the National Sport School in Calgary, Alberta with many other top Canadian athletes. Hartl ...

* Annie Pelletier

Water polo

Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard has been the host of Club CAMO Water Polo since the

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. The club has won a number of provincial and Canadian championships over the years. Many members of the club have also been placed on various Canadian national water polo teams.

External links

CAMO Natation
(in French and English)
CAMO Plongeon - new site
(in French)
CAMO Plongeon - old site
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