Celebratory Dive 18 Years After Making History
[Written by Stephen Wright]
Katura Horton-Perinchief rolled back the years with a celebratory dive to mark her eighteenth anniversary of becoming the first Black woman in the world to compete in diving at the Olympic Games.
She performed the dive yesterday at the Aquatics Facility at the National Sports Centre, where she holds her Star Diving Camp for local youngsters each summer.
Horton-Perinchief was 21 years old when she made history by representing Bermuda in the three-metre springboard event at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
“Despite the pictorial evidence you’re about to see, I don’t ‘still got it’,” she wrote on Instagram. “Thankfully, I survived my 10-metre dive. My body hurts, but my spirit is satisfied.”
Horton-Perinchief was the first woman to compete for Bermuda in diving at the Olympics and the first Bermudian diver since the Helsinki Games in 1952.
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