Early Medals for Great Britain’s young divers at Europeans

Martin and Spendolini-Sirieix secured the first gold of the championships for Great Britain at the close of Wednesday's session, with a Forward 2¹/₂ Somersaults (107B) that scored 67.50 being the pick of the dives as the pair totalled 278.46 in the Girls Synchronised Platform, to secure the top spot of the podium.

With five medals for the British team so far across the opening three days of the championship, it was the quartet of Desharne Bent-Ashmeil, Cameron Gammage, Oliver Crompton and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix who kick started the positive wave of results with a silver medal in the Mixed Jump Event, after combining for a score of 290.80 on Monday afternoon.

Tuesday’s session saw the first of the individual springboard events, with Callie Eaglestone maintaining consistency after a solid opening Back 2¹/₂ Somersaults (205C) to claim bronze in the Girls B 3m Springboard, as Desharne Bent-Ashmeil had to settle for fifth despite leading throughout the preliminaries. In the Boys B 1m Springboard Leon Baker just narrowly missed out on the podium to finish fourth.

Further medal success continued that evening via the experienced pairing of Maria Papworth and Scarlett Mew Jensen in the Girls Synchronised 3m final; they secured silver with a Forward 2¹/₂ Somersaults 1 Twist (5152B) in their final and highest scoring dive. Papworth is to compete again in the individual event this coming Saturday with partner Mew Jensen headed home ahead of traveling on to the FINA World Aquatics Championships.

Wednesday's headlining gold was preceded with an additional bronze medal performance in the Girls A 10m Platform, as Josie Zillig edged out Pellacani (ITA) and compatriot Emily Martin (5^th) with a Back 2¹/₂ Somersaults 1¹/₂ Twists (5253B) bringing her final third place total to 385.50. Oliver Crompton took 4^th in the Boys A 1m Springboard just shy of a medal, but will have another chance to podium in both the individual and synchronised 3m Springboard this week.