Pamela Ware of Greenfield Park, Quebec has announced her retirement from international diving at the age of 31 according to Jean-Francois Tremblay of the Canadian Press on Thursday. Ware won four medals at the World Aquatics Championships, 14 medals at the Diving World Series events, six medals at the Pan American Games and one medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Ware’s four medals at the World Aquatics Championships came from 2013 to 2023. She won bronze in the women’s three metre springboard and bronze in the women’s three metre synchronized diving alongside Canadian Olympic silver medalist Jennifer Abel of Montreal, Quebec at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Ware and Abel then won silver in the women’s three metre synchronized diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia. Ware’s final World Aquatics Championship medal came in Fukuoka, Japan in 2023, where she won bronze in the women’s three metre springboard. Abel meanwhile won her Olympic silver medal alongside Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu of Saint-Constant, Quebec in women’s three metre synchronized diving at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021.
Of Ware’s six Pan American Games medals, three were gold. She placed first in the women’s three metre synchronized diving alongside Abel in Lima, Peru in 2019, and then won gold in the women’s one metre and women’s three metre springboard at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Santiago, Chile.
According to CBC Sports, Ware plans on attending pastry school to pursue her passion for baking. Her husband is Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Wyatt Sanford of Kennetcook, Nova Scotia. Sanford won the bronze medal in the men’s lightweight boxing division at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
