Christina Seufert Sholtis (born Christina Anne Seufert; January 13, 1957, in

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) and raised in Ambler Pennsylvania is an Olympic diver from the USA. Seafert qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a

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instead. She dove for the US at the 1984 Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in the Women's 3m Springboard event.
Olympian Chris Seufert Sholtis to help judge XXX Games
'', by Lori Maranville, Saline Reported. Published 2012-03-21, retrieved 2012-03-21. She went to school and dove for the

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. She was inducted into the schools' Hall of Honor in 2007. In 2012, she served as one of the judges for Diving at the

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.London 2012 - Technical Officials page
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website (www.fina.org). Published 2012-02-27, retrieved 2012-03-21.

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* 1957 births Living people Congressional Gold Medal recipients Divers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in diving Michigan Wolverines women's divers Sportspeople from Sacramento, California American female divers Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Competitors at the 1977 Summer Universiade American referees and umpires 20th-century American sportswomen {{US-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub