{{Short description|Canadian diver (born 1993)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name = Pamela Ware |image = FINA Diving World Series 2013 - Moscow (RUS) - Day 2 - Pamela Ware.JPG |image_size = 150px |caption = Ware in 2013 |full_name = Pamela Lina Ware |birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1993|2|12}} |birth_place = Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada |hometown = |height = 1.61 m |weight = 52 kg |country = Canada |event = 3 metres & 3 metres synchro |club = CAMO |partner = Jennifer Abel |coach = Aaron Dziver |medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2015 Kazan|3 m synchro}} {{MedalBronze|2013 Barcelona|3 m springboard}} {{MedalBronze|2013 Barcelona|3 m synchro}} {{MedalBronze|2023 Fukuoka|3 m springboard}} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalSilver|2014 Glasgow|3 m synchro}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalGold|2019 Lima | 3 m synchro}} {{MedalGold|2023 Santiago | 1 m springboard}} {{MedalGold|2023 Santiago | 3 m springboard}} {{MedalSilver|2015 Toronto|3 m springboard}} {{MedalSilver|2015 Toronto|3 m synchro}} {{MedalSilver|2023 Santiago | 3 m synchro}} }}
'''Pamela Lina Ware''' (born February 12, 1993) is a Canadian diver. She is currently partnered with Jennifer Abel for synchronized diving. Ware has two bronze medals from the 2013 World Aquatics Championships where she won in the synchronized 3 m event with Abel as well as individual bronze in the 3 m. She is also the silver medallist in the 3 m springboard at the 2015 Pan American Games, finishing second to Abel.
==Career== Ware competed at the 2009 Canada Games where she won two individual gold medals as a competitor for Quebec. She won her first major international hardware when she won bronze together with partner Abel at the 2013 World Championships.<ref>{{cite news |title=Canada's Jennifer Abel, Pamela Ware win synchro diving bronze |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/canada-s-jennifer-abel-pamela-ware-win-synchro-diving-bronze-1.1363299 |publisher=CBC Sports |date=July 20, 2013}}</ref> She next won her second bronze medal in the 3 m solo competition, setting a personal best of 350.25; her teammate Abel finished 5th.<ref>{{cite news |title=Canadian diver Pamela Ware wins bronze at worlds |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/canadian-diver-pamela-ware-wins-bronze-at-worlds-1.1326413 |publisher=CBC Sports |date=July 27, 2013}}</ref>
Ware competed in the 2020 Olympics. In the 3-metre springboard, she aborted her dive and landed feet first, earning a score of zero and eliminating her from the finals. She said she avoided injury by aborting the dive after being out of rhythm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/canadian-diver-scored-0-feet-013136731.html|title=A Canadian diver who scored a 0 with a feet-first flop with the finals on the line said she wasn't going to give up}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/sports/canada-pamela-ware-olympics-dive|title=Canada's Pamela Ware springs feet first in failed Olympics dive|publisher=Fox News|date=August 2, 2021}}</ref>
==Personal life== Ware is married to Canadian Olympic boxer Wyatt Sanford.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/boxing-ring-wedding-rings-from-nerve-racking-proposal-to-next-months-commonwealth-games-busy-year-for-kennetcook-fighter-wyatt-sanford-100744642|title=Boxing ring, wedding rings: From 'nerve-racking' proposal to next month's Commonwealth Games, busy year for Kennetcook fighter Wyatt Sanford|publisher=PNI Atlantic News|accessdate=23 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/pan-american-games/canada-roundup-pan-am-games-oct27-1.7010229|title=Canada's Tammara Thibeault, Wyatt Sanford win Pan Am boxing gold with unanimous decisions|publisher=CHC|accessdate=23 April 2025}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{World Aquatics}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150923215259/http://www.diving.ca/en/index.php?option=com_profile&view=profileitem&Itemid=151&profileid=14 Pamela Ware] at Diving Canada (archived) * {{Team Canada}} * {{Olympics.com}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{2019 Pan American Games profile|diving/athlete-profile-n1136368-ware-pamela|www-archive=20250126051735}} * {{2014 Commonwealth Games profile|diving/1009434/p_ware}} * {{CGF profile|57446|Pamela Lina Ware}} * {{Instagram|name=Pamela Ware Sanford}}
{{Footer Pan American Diving Champions 1m Springboard Women}} {{Footer Pan American Diving Champions 3m Springboard Women}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ware, Pamela}} Category:1993 births Category:Living people Category:Canadian female divers Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Category:Olympic divers for Canada Category:Divers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Category:Divers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:Divers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Category:Commonwealth Games divers for Canada Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in diving Category:Divers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Category:Divers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Category:Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada in diving Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada in diving Category:Divers at the 2015 Pan American Games Category:Divers at the 2019 Pan American Games Category:Divers at the 2023 Pan American Games Category:Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Category:Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Category:Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Category:Francophone Quebec people Category:Sportspeople from Longueuil Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen Category:Medallists at the 2009 Canada Summer Games
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