British Diving Championships: Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix wins British title to safe Paris spot


Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix received the person girls’s 10m platform closing on the British Diving Championships to safe her place within the occasion on the Olympics in Paris this summer season.

The 19-year-old received with a rating of 363.7 factors, whereas Lois Toulson was second with 335.90 and Eden Cheng third on 327.75.

“I am elated,” stated Spendolini-Sirieix. “I simply stored pushing by that competitors.

“We’ll see what occurs in Paris however I actually simply need to take pleasure in it.”

The competitors on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre is the important thing choice occasion for the person 3m springboard and 10m platform Olympic diving disciplines in addition to the European Championship diving workforce.

There are two locations out there for Paris in every of the person occasions so long as a diver wins the occasion and achieves a pre-set factors tally in each the preliminaries and closing, which Spendolini-Sirieix did.

Jack Laugher claimed victory within the males’s 3m springboard in Sandwell to place himself in prime place to be chosen for the occasion in Paris.

He may solely end fourth within the preliminary competitors however received the ultimate with 507.20 factors.

Jordan Houlden was in second on 476.20 factors and Dan Goodfellow third with 471.60.

“The primary three are my simpler dives and, if I do them properly, I do know I am in good stead for the ultimate three,” stated Laugher.

“A bit wobble on my fourth however fifth and sixth had been actually good so I am very comfortable.”

Spendolini-Sirieix and Laugher are already a part of Staff GB’s diving squad for the Olympics as they had been chosen among the many synchronised pairings.

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