Alexandre Despatie Hunky French-Canadian Diver Pictures

Alexandre Despatie was born on June 8, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian diver. He began diving at age five (in his own backyard pool), and in the 2000 Summer Olympics finished in 4th place in the 10 metre platform.

Alexandre first came to public attention at the 1998 Commonwealth Games with an extremely impressive gold medal on the 10 metre platform (which included an unprecedented score of perfect 10s). He was only 13 years old at the time, and the achievement was recorded in the Guinness Book Of World Records 2000.

At the Olympic games in Sydney in 2000, with a 4th place finish at the 10-metre platform, he was offered the chance to compete in the springboard event in those games as well when one of the Canadian divers had to withdraw from the meet due to complications with his citizenship, but declined because he had not been training for that event.

He won the silver medal at the world championships in 2002 in Fukuoka, Japan in the same event, and in 2003 won a gold medal at the World Diving championships in Barcelona, Spain in the 10 metre platform. He recorded 107.1 for his last dive, which set a new record.

At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Despatie won the gold medal in the three-metre springboard event.

At the Olympics in 2004 in Athens, Greece, he won the silver medal in the men's 3 metre springboard competition, but finished out of the medal standings in fourth place in the 10 metre platform. This finish was contrary to expectations going into the games, where he was expected to win silver or gold in 10 metre platform and not place in the springboard.

In front of his home crowd at the World Aquatic Championships 2005 in Montreal, he became World Champion on the 3 metre springboard. He won with a world record score of 813.60 points, his "worst" dive being rated an average 8.5. Alexandre followed up on that performance by winning the 1m springboard, with a world record score of 489.69. His victory meant that he had won FINA World Titles on both springboard and platform.

Despatie successfully defended his three-metre springboard title at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, again winning a gold medal. He won 3 gold medals in Melbourne (1m springboard, 3m springboard and 3m synchronized with Arturo Miranda. He finished 4th in the 10m platform.

Despatie has a sponsorship agreement with McDonald's, and acts as an "ambassador", doing television advertisements and personal apperances.

Alexandre attends Collège André-Grasset and lives with his parents in Laval-sur-le-Lac, Quebec. In an interview with the CBC in the lead-up to the 2004 Olympics, he said he was interested in acting and television/movie production, and may pursue that as a career once he is no longer diving.