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Meaghan Benfeito
Meaghan Benfeito (born March 2, 1989) is a Canadian diver. She competes in the 10m synchronized event with Roseline Filion. Benfeito and Filion won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the 10 m platform synchro event.
==Career==
She began diving for Canada in 2005 and credits Emilie Heymans and Alexander Despatie for inspiring her to take up the sport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/benfeito-meaghan-1102651/ )〕 She won a bronze medal at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in her hometown of Montreal, but she and Filion have been unable to return to the medal podium at the Worlds since. In 2006, they won a bronze at the Commonwealth Games. Benfeito won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in the 3m Synchronized event with Kelly MacDonald.
Benfeito and Filion qualified for the Beijing Olympics after they beat teammates Heymans and Marie-Eve Marleau which was considered a dramatic upset, particularly at defeating Canadian diving legend Heymans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://montreal.about.com/od/sportsrecreation/ss/olympic_divers_3.htm )〕 At the 2008 Summer Olympics, the diving partners finished in 7th place. She did not compete in the 2010 Commonwealth Games due to a lingering shoulder injury that had not healed in time.〔
Both the ladies failed to medal at any events leading into the 2012 London Olympics. At the 2012 edition the two Canadians managed to hold third place through nearly the whole competition in the 10 m platform synchro event. After the medal clinching dive she said that "We gave it all we had and we came away with a bronze medal. We're pretty happy with that." A Quebec politician from a provincially sovereigntist party, the Parti Québécois, commented on the medals won by Benfeito and others as the first four medals won were from Quebec athletes. Pauline Marois said that "“This means, among other things, that it’s another example of how Quebec could shine among the brightest ... as an independent country. We could continue to win our medals, I’m sure of that." Benfeito responded to a similar question from Canadian media when asked if she was as proud of the day as all the day's medalists were from Quebec athletes by saying that "No, we are one big happy gang. We are equally as proud of our home in Quebec as we are of our home in Canada."
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