Elizabeth Cui (born 12 August 1997) is a

diver Diver or divers may refer to: *Diving (sport), the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water *Practitioner of underwater diving, including: **scuba diving, **freediving, **surface-supplied diving, **saturation diving, a ...

from New Zealand. She competed at the

2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. T ...

. Cui is a five-time national champion and record holder. In heading to

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, Cui marked the first time New Zealand had been represented in the sport since the 1992 Olympic Games in

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. Cui competed for

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from 2016 to 2019 and remains one of the most decorated diving athletes in LSU history. Cui still holds the women's 3 meter record and ended her career gaining two more SEC silver medals to her collection making it four SEC medals. In her athletic career, Cui placed fifth at her sophomore year and sixth in her senior year at the NCAA championships in the 1 meter springboard event. Her highest 3 meter placing at the NCAA championships was tenth in her senior season. Cui was named most valuable player consecutively for three years. During the 2019 World Championships, Cui placed eighth in the 1 meter event at the 2019 World Championships in Guangju, South Korea. At this event she also placed thirteenth on 3 meter and ninth in the mixed synchronised event alongside partner Anton Down-Jenkins.

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New Zealand female divers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1997 births Olympic divers for New Zealand Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand {{NewZealand-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub

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