Elina Eggers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elina Eggers

Olympic diver

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1987

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Profession: competitive diver

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Elina Elisabeth Eggers (born March 12, 1987 in Stockholm) is a Swedish platform diver.
She is a thirteen-time Swedish diving champion, a four-time All-American athlete, and a two-time first-team Pac-10 All-Academic honoree.
She also won a bronze medal in the women's platform at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with a score of 319.65, earning her a spot on the Swedish team for the Olympics.Petre represented Sweden at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed as a lone female diver in the women's platform event.
She was ranked sixteenth out of twenty-nine divers in the preliminary rounds, until a much better performance in the semi-finals left Petre in ninth position, attaining a score of 315.45.
Petre, however, finished only in twelfth place by eleven points behind Japan's Mai Nakagawa, with a score of 285.85.Petre is also a member of the swimming and diving team for the Arizona State Sun Devils, and an economics graduate at the Arizona State University in Glendale, Arizona.