Nadezhda Bazhina

Nadezhda Bazhina
Personal information
Born (1987-12-29) 29 December 1987
Penza, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
Country  Russia
Sport Diving
Event(s) 1 m, 3 m, 3 m synchro

Nadezhda Valeryevna Bazhina (Russian: Надежда Валерьевна Бажина; born 29 December 1987) is a Russian diver. She won the 3 m springboard event at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships and at the 2014 European Aquatics Championship.

In the Rio 2016 Olympics, she flopped on her dive after a slip from the board, resulting in a zero score.[1][2] Bazhina won her first WC medal at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There she won silver losing only to Australian Maddison Keeney.

References

  1. "Russian diver gets 0.00 after landing on her back". 13 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  2. http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/rio-2016/russias-nadezhda-bazhina-flops-in-pool-after-slip-off-diving-board
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