C\u00e9dric Fofana a connu ses premiers succ\u00e8s \u00e0 l’\u00e9chelle internationale \u00e0 l’occasion des Championnats du monde juniors de la FINA, alors qu’il a emport\u00e9 le bronze au tremplin de 3 m dans la cat\u00e9gorie d’\u00e2ge des 14-15 ans. Il a atteint la finale dans chacune de ses trois \u00e9preuves \u00e0 ces Mondiaux juniors, lui qui a fini neuvi\u00e8me \u00e0 la tour de 10 m\u00e8tres et 12e au tremplin de 1 m\u00e8tre. Aux Championnats nationaux juniors de 2018, Fofana a \u00e9tabli un record canadien chez les 14-15 ans au tremplin de 3 m\u00e8tres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fofana n’avait que 15 ans quand on l’a inscrit \u00e0 ses premi\u00e8res comp\u00e9titions internationales chez les seniors en 2019, et il avait alors particip\u00e9 aux \u00e9preuves du tremplin de 3 m\u00e8tres \u00e0 Calgary et \u00e0 Mission Viejo, en Californie. Il a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 deux autres \u00e9tapes du Grand Prix en f\u00e9vrier 2020, \u00e0 Madrid en Espagne et \u00e0 Rostock en Allemagne, avant que les autres comp\u00e9titions pr\u00e9vues au calendrier soient annul\u00e9es en raison de la pand\u00e9mie de la COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Il a obtenu sa place dans l’\u00e9quipe olympique en vue des Jeux de Tokyo 2020 quand il a remport\u00e9 l’\u00e9preuve masculine du tremplin de 3 m\u00e8tres aux Essais canadiens, tenus \u00e0 la fin du mois de juin 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00c0 propos de C\u00e9dric<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n D\u00e9buts :<\/strong> Le plongeon a piqu\u00e9 sa curiosit\u00e9 pour la premi\u00e8re fois \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de trois ans, quand il a vu les tremplins \u00e0 sa piscine locale\u2026 Autres int\u00e9r\u00eats : <\/strong>A commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00e9tudier en sciences naturelles au Coll\u00e8ge Maisonneuve en 2021\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" C\u00e9dric Fofana a connu ses premiers succ\u00e8s \u00e0 l’\u00e9chelle internationale \u00e0 l’occasion des Championnats du monde juniors de la FINA, alors qu’il a emport\u00e9 le bronze au tremplin de 3 m dans la cat\u00e9gorie d’\u00e2ge des 14-15 ans. Il a atteint la finale dans chacune de ses trois \u00e9preuves \u00e0 ces Mondiaux juniors, lui qui a fini neuvi\u00e8me \u00e0 la tour de 10 m\u00e8tres et 12e au tremplin de 1 m\u00e8tre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":184274,"template":"","tags":[415986973,682164503,1104411,2480962,57868344],"hof-categories":[],"year-inducted":[],"gender":[42123],"season":[415983968],"sport":[181823658],"game":[193413370],"team":[682163176],"event":[181823853],"province":[415983157],"class_list":["post-183303","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-3-m","tag-cedric-fofana","tag-equipe-canada","tag-plongeon","tag-tokyo-2020","gender-masculin","season-ete","sport-sports-aquatiques-plongeon","game-tokyo-2020","team-tokyo-2020-plongeon","event-tremplin-3-m-hommes","province-quebec"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Team-Canada-Cedric-Fofana-e1625236531364.jpeg?quality=100","category_names":[],"tag_names":["3 m","C\u00e9dric Fofana","\u00c9quipe canada","plongeon","Tokyo 2020"],"sport_names":[],"game_names":["Tokyo 2020"],"season_names":["\u00c9t\u00e9"],"team_names":["Tokyo 2020 Plongeon"],"province_names":["Qu\u00e9bec"],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"cedfofana","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/CEDRIC_FOFANA.jpg?quality=100","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec","athlete_birthplace":"Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"September 15, 2003","athlete_age":22,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/183303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/183303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192908,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/183303\/revisions\/192908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=183303"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=183303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}