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| Born | 12 August 1960 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 155 cm (61 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Dezso Kiefer (father) | ||||||||||||||
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Eniko Kiefer (born 12 August 1960) is a Canadian diver. She competed in the women's 3 metre springboard event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. During the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, she won a bronze medal in the 3 meter women's springboard event.
In her earlier years, she competed in gymnastics from the age of two up to about seven, when she made a decision to fully concentrate on diving under the coaching of her father, Dezso Kiefer, due to the higher risk of injury associated with gymnastics. During her early diving career, she was compared to Cindy Shatto and in 1975, became only the second Canadian diver to break the 400 point barrier in an age class competition. By this time, she was ranked third nationally and was unanimously considered among coaches as being "the best in the world". She was selected to represent the Canadian national diving team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow before Canada announced a boycott of the event in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In 1982, she competed at the World Diving Championships held in Ecuador that year.
In October 2001, by that time a school teacher, Kiefer was one of seven people enshrined in the McGill Sports Hall of Fame, making her just the fifth woman to be inducted.