Julie Kent (born 19 April 1965, Hobart) is a retired Australian diver. She represented Australia at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, as well as the 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games. She won a bronze medal in the 10m platform in the 1986 Commonwealth Games. World Age Group Champion 1983, winner of Federation of Australian sport Junior athlete of the year 1983. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

Julie was a selector for diving Australia for a number of years and managed the most successful Olympic Diving team in 2004 at the Athens Olympic Games.

Julie Kent (diver)

In 1997, Kent became the first woman president of the Tasmanian Olympic Council. In 2007, she was entered onto the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women. As of 2019, she was unemployed after running a cafe business for seven years.

Julie Kent (diver)

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1965 births

Living people

Australian female divers

Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia

Divers at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Divers at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Olympic divers for Australia

Divers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games

Divers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games

Australian Institute of Sport divers

Commonwealth Games medallists in diving

20th-century Australian women

21st-century Australian women

Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games

Sportspeople from Hobart

Julie Kent (diver)