Steve Foley (diver)
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| Full name | Stephen Neil Foley | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 July 1957 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Diving | |||||||||||||||||
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Stephen Neil Foley (born 11 July 1957) is a former Australian diver. He competed at three successive Olympic Games and three Commonwealth Games.
Foley competed in the springboard and platform events at the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Olympics.[1] In the Commonwealth Games he won silver medals in both events at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, and also competed in 1978 and 1986. He retired after the 1986 games,[2] but remained involved in the sport as a coach.[3] He was Australia's head diving coach at the 1988 Olympics but switched to work for the British diving team in 1999. In 2008 he was appointed as the high performance director by USA Diving.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Steve Foley". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ "Rogerson plunges to perfection". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 August 1986. p. 31.
- ^ "Now a splash for the future". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 July 1986. p. 82.
- ^ "USA Diving Hires Steve Foley as High Performance Director". 6 September 2008.
External links
[edit]- Steve Foley at World Aquatics
- Steve Foley at Olympics.com
- Steve Foley at Olympedia
- Steve Foley at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Steve Foley at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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