Claire Carver-Dias
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Canada
| ||
| Women's synchronized swimming | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 2000 Sydney | Team |
| Pan American Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1999 Winnipeg | Duet |
| | 1999 Winnipeg | Team |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| | 2002 Manchester | Solo |
| | 2002 Manchester | Duet |
Claire Rhiannon Carver-Dias (born May 19, 1977 in Burlington, Ontario) is a Canadian competitor in synchronized swimming and Olympic medalist. She grew up in Montreal, Quebec, but moved to Toronto in her late teens to pursue a career on the Canadian National Synchronized Swim Team.
From 1994 to 1996 Carver-Dias competed in the duet event and won several national titles with duet partner Estella Warren, who went on to become an international model and movie-star.
Carver-Dias won the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in the Women's Duet alongside Fanny Létourneau, and a gold medal in the team event as well.
She participated on the Canadian team that received a bronze medal in synchronized team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and placed fifth in the duet event.
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Carver-Dias earned two gold medals, one in the solo event and one in the duet event.
She was the President of AthletesCAN from 2006-2008 and was elected to the board of Commonwealth Games Canada in 2014. She completed a Masters degree at McGill University and currently works as an management consultant (www.clearday.ca). She also holds a PhD from the University of Wales, and has written a novel called "The Games," which earned her a Mississauga Literary Arts Award in 2013. She is working on a business book that takes sport-world strategies and applies them to business contexts.
She is in the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame, and hosts a podcast called "The Water Cooler Effect", which is available on iTunes.
In 2016, she was named as the chef de mission of Canada's 2018 Commonwealth Games team.[1]
Family
She is married to Douglas Dias and has four children.
References
- ↑ McKay, Duncan (6 October 2016). "Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist named as Canada Chef de Mission for Gold Coast 2018". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 8 October 2016.