﻿{"id":572598,"date":"2023-11-13T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=572598"},"modified":"2023-11-13T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:35:26","slug":"olympic-diver-anton-down-jenkins-excitedly-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-diver-anton-down-jenkins-excitedly-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Diver Anton Down-Jenkins Excitedly Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olympic Diver Anton Down-Jenkins Excitedly Announces Retirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Olympic diver <strong>Anton Down-Jenkins<\/strong> has announced his retirement from competition less than a year ahead of the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Wellington made the announcement on social media last weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); 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font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CzhD6quucML\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Anton Down-Jenkins (@antonjenkins)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Down-Jenkins wrote in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI recently decided to end my campaign through to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and while I\u2019m sure a lot of people are confused by the timing, it couldn\u2019t feel more right.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve accomplished so much more than I ever thought possible as an athlete in the sport of diving. From qualifying for the Olympics to competing in an Olympic final, after Tokyo I had ticked off every single goal I had ever set out to achieve in sport, something not many people can say they ever do.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Down-Jenkins is the two-time ACC Diver of the Year at the University of North Carolina. He was the first male New Zealand\/Aotearoa diver to compete at the Olympics since 1984 and made a final to boot, finishing eighth in 3-meter springboard. (Down-Jenkins is Maori, a member of the Te Awara iwi.)<\/p>\n<p>He competed at the World Aquatics Championships this summer in Fukuoka, Japan, finishing 34th on 3-meter. He\u2019ll return to UNC as a graduate assistant, working with his longtime mentor <strong>Yadiel Gamboa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Down-Jenkins wrapped up his college career by finishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-lyle-yost-risks-it-reaps-reward-of-1-meter-crown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fourth on 1-meter<\/a> and ninth on 3-meter at the NCAA Championships last year. He was the ACC Diver of the year in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/acc-scholar-athletes-of-the-year-kate-douglass-nicolas-albiero-anton-down-jenkins-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and 2022<\/a>. He placed sixth on 3-meter and eighth on 1-meter at NCAAs in 2022 after being fourth on 3-meter at NCAAs in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He swept both boards at ACCs in 2021, won 3-meter gold to go with 3-meter silver in 2022. He won silver in both in his fifth year of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Down-Jenkins started his diving career at the University of South Carolina, where he was a 3-time All-American.<\/p>\n<p>Down-Jenkins, who competed for Wellington Diving Club and North Carolina Diving, dove at the 2018 Commonwealth Games as well as several FINA Grand Prix events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been the most amazing experience having done all I have, and I am so so so grateful for all the support I\u2019ve received and all the people I\u2019ve met because of this sport,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Diver Anton Down-Jenkins Excitedly Announces Retirement New Zealand Olympic diver Anton Down-Jenkins has announced his retirement from competition less than a year ahead of the Paris Olympics. 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