Evan Stewart

In 1994, at the 7th FINA World Championships in Italy, Evan won gold in the 1m event. He also won that event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia.

Evan Stewart was born June 11, 1975, in the former Rhodesia. He attended St. George's College in Harare, where his diving career followed in the footsteps of the famous Rhodesian divers of the 1960s and 70s who dominated the sport in South Africa.  One such famous Rhodesian diver was David Parrington, who has been the diving coach at the University of Tennessee since 1990. He recruited Evan to compete for the University of Tennessee.

He represented Zimbabwe in three consecutive Summer Olympics -1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta) and 2000 (Sydney).

His mother was Anthea Stewart, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games when Zimbabwe won the women's field hockey,  was also the national diving coach when she was invited to officiate at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She had previously won Springbok colours for representing South Africa between 1963 and 1974. She was 35 in 2000.

Stewart was an All-American for the University of Tennessee swimming and diving team from 1994-1997. He captured NCAA 3-meter titles in 1994 (614.65 points) and 1995 (655.40), and six SEC crowns - 1-meter in 1994, 1996, 1997 -and 3-meter in 1994, 1995 and 1996. He set an SEC record of 583.55 in '97 on the 1-meter. 

Stewart captured two medals at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is the son of former field hockey player Anthea Stewart, who won the gold medal in the women's competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union.

In 2003 he returned to Zimbabwe to partner in a family export business. Today he is a director at the International Coatings Company.