Esther Qin ( zh , c = 覃帆 , p = Qín Fān , l = Qin

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; born 18 November 1991) is a Chinese-born Australian retired diver.

Personal life

Qin was born in

Liuzhou Liuzhou (; , Standard Mandarin: , Liuzhou Yue dialect: International Phonetic Alphabet, iəu53 ʦəu44 is a prefecture-level city in north-central Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The prefecture's population was 4 ...

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to a Zhuang family. Her family moved to Australia in 2009, as her father had found a position as a chef.

Diving career

In China

Qin started diving at the age of eleven in China and competed in several national competitions.

For Australia

Qin competed at the

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, Russia, won a silver medal in the 3m synchronised with Samantha Mills. She also competed in the 1 m and 3 m springboard.
At the

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, Scotland, she won the gold medal in the women's 3m springboard, a bronze medal in women's 1m springboard and came 4th in the women's synchronised 3 metre springboard alongside Anna Gelai. She was coached by Chava Sobrino at the

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. At the

2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Aquatics Championships, FINA World Championships (), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. The number of participating national teams (190), ...

, Russia, she won a bronze medal in the 3m synchronized with Samantha Mills. She competed at the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

where she finished 6th in the women's 3 metre springboard event. Qin partnered with Georgia Sheehan in the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

to achieve first place and received a gold medal in the 3m synchronised springboard event. Qin also won a bronze medal in the women's 1m springboard event and came 5th in the women's 3 metre springboard event. Qin qualified for the

Tokyo 2020 Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

where she came 12th in the women's 3-metre springboard event. She competed at the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England betw ...

where she came 5th in the women's synchronised 3 metre springboard event alongside

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and 6th in the women's 1 metre springboard event. Qin announced her retirement from international diving on December 5, 2022.

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