Kristian Ipsen (born October 20, 1992) is an American diver, who has been diving competitively since 1998. Diving alongside

Troy Dumais Troy Matthew Dumais (born January 21, 1980) is an American competitive diver from California. Dumais has competed for the United States at four Olympic Games, winning a team bronze medal in the synchronized 3m in 2012. He attended the Universi ...

, they took the silver medal in the synchronized 3 meter springboard at the

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and the bronze medal at the

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Competitive diving career

At the 2011 US National Championships in August, Ipsen captured the senior men 3-meter springboard championship and teamed with

to win the synchronized men 3-meter springboard at

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. In June 2012 Ipsen and his 3m synchro partner Troy Dumais qualified at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials held in

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, Washington to represent the

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at the 2012 Olympic Games in

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which began the following month. Ipsen and Dumais won the bronze in the synchronized 3m on August 1, 2012 with a score of 446.7. The duo's medal along with David Boudia's gold in the 10 metre platform and Boudia and his partner Nicholas McCrory's bronze in the synchronized 10m platform were the first Olympic medals of any kind for the United States since 2000 and the first for a U.S male diver since 1996 in Atlanta when

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won the bronze medal in the 3 meter springboard. At the 2016 FINA World Championships in

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, Ipsen won a bronze medal in the 3m springboard. It is his first individual diving medal at the

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. At the 2016 Olympics trials, the team of Ipsen and Dumais came in second in the 3m springboard synchronized event. As there was only one spot on the Olympic squad in the event they did not qualify. The duo was bested by the team of

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and Sam Dorman who went on to win the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the event. Ipsen represented the United States in the men's 3m springboard event at the

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and finished fifth. Following the 3m springboard Olympic competition Ipsen related "I’m taking a significant break," ..."We’ll see if that Olympic spark comes back, but I’m definitely going to take a break after this".

Personal life

Ipsen is the son of Kent and Yvette Ipsen. He has a younger sister, Lauren. He is currently employed by

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inc. in San Francisco. He attended De La Salle High School. He graduated from

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in 2015. He was a member of the Stanford Cardinal diving team during his time there. He is also currently married to fellow Stanford Diving alumni, Lilly Hinrichs.

References

External links

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USA Diving National Team. Kristian Ipsen bio
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