 Shatto pictured by the Calgary Herald, September 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Cynthia Shatto | ||||||||||||||
| Born | June 19, 1957 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Died | October 3, 2011 (aged 54) Miramar, Florida, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 126 lb (57 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
William Weingartner
(1985–2011) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Platform diving | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | John Dickinson Don Webb | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | June 1, 1978 (aged 20) | ||||||||||||||
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Cynthia "Cindy" Shatto (June 19, 1957 – October 3, 2011) was a Canadian diver. She won a gold medal in the 1974 British Commonwealth Games 3 metre springboard event and competed in the women's 10 metre platform event at the 1976 Summer Olympics, where she finished fifth following controversy over the judges' scoring.
Shatto began competitive diving when she was 8 years old and won nearly all diving events of her age group. To further develop her skills, in 1970 she and fellow diver Linda Cuthbert moved into the family home of her coach Don Webb, where she would train for up to five hours a day, six days a week, only taking rest on Sunday. Around the age of 14, she was admitted to hospital in the early 1970s and needed her gall bladder removed due to eating too much greasy food, leaving her weak and unable to train during the winter of 1971–1972. During the mid-1970s in-between competing at the 1974 Commonwealth Games and the 1976 Olympics, she lost interest in the sport and her attitude changed when she compared her lifestyle to that of others who did not have the pressures of international competitions, but was encouraged by fellow diver Beverly Boys to reflect positively on the sport and thereafter began serious practising again from around August 1975.
Shatto retired from competitive diving in 1978 after growing tired of a nomadic lifestyle and in summer 1990 moved with her family to Binghamton, New York, where she became a diving coach at Binghamton University. She died of lung cancer in October 2011 at the age of 54.