More from the British Gas Diving Championships

A few more pictures from last weekend's British Gas Diving Championships:

 James Denny (City of Leeds Diving, middle) winner of the Mens 3m final with a score of 434.45, flanked by Oliver Dingley (Southend Diving, right) second with 423.10 and Yona Knight-Wisdom (Jamaica) 381.55

 Lauren Grinstead (Southampton Diving Academy) practicing for the Womens 10m Final.

Womens 10m Champion Victoria Vincent (Plymouth Diving) with Olympian Leon Taylor.

Victoria Vincent wins Womens 10m Final at British Gas Diving Championships

Victoria Vincent (Plymouth Diving) won the Womens 10m Championship at Ponds Forge, Sheffield today with a score of 310.70.  The 13 year old from Plymouth was following up her recent success in the Platform Girls’ Group B Final at the International Youth Diving Meet in Dresden, Germany in April.  

 

With second placed Georgia Ward (Crystal Palace Diving Club) and Shanice Lobb (Plymouth  Diving) who came third.

With coach Andy Banks.

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British Gas Diving Championships 2014

Held at Ponds Forge, Sheffield from 6th-8th June 2014.

 Jack Haslam and Ross Haslam (City of Sheffield Diving) in the Mens 3m Synchro.

Freddie Woodward (City of Sheffield Diving) during warm-up for the Mens 3m Synchro.

 Nick Robinson-Baker and Freddie Woodward (City of Sheffield Diving) won the Mens 3m Synchro with a score of 405.63

Rebecca Gallantree and Lois Toulson (City of Leeds Diving) in the Womens 10m Synchro.

Robyn Birch and Shanice Lobb (City of Plymouth Diving) on their way to winning the Womens 10m Synchro with a score of 270.78. 

 Robyn Birch and Shanice Lobb (City of Plymouth Diving) and Rebecca Gallantree and Lois Toulson (City of Leeds Diving) in the Womens 10m Synchro.

Team England confirm table tennis players for XX Commonwealth Games

Team England’s table tennis players for the Commonwealth Games have been revealed today.

Among the team of ten is double Commonwealth Games gold medallist Andrew Baggaley, world number 56 Liam Pitchford, plus London 2012 Olympians Paul and Joanna Drinkhall and Kelly Sibley. Delhi 2010 competitors Hannah Hicks, Karina Le Fevre and Daniel Reed return whilst Tin-Tin Ho and Sam Walker both make their Commonwealth debuts.

Joanna Drinkhall, the women’s national champion who won bronze in the mixed doubles event in Delhi, makes her third appearance at the Commonwealth Games.

Kelly Sibley said: “I am really happy and excited to be selected to represent Team England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the fact that the Games are on home soil makes it even more exciting as family and friends will be coming to watch and support us."

Men’s national champion Liam Pitchford has two medals from Delhi 2010, silver and bronze, and last month in Tokyo helped England win the Challenge Division at the World Team Table Tennis Championships. 

Paul Drinkhall said: “I am very happy to be part of Team England for the Commonwealth Games again!  “I think the team is in a great place to be fighting for medals in every event, and for me personally I am really looking forward to the whole experience and hopefully coming away with lots of medals"!

Tin-Tin Ho said: “I am so excited and overjoyed that I have been selected and have received the opportunity to represent my country in the Commonwealth Games.

“As it is my first Games, I am really looking forward to the experience, learning from all the athletes and hopefully winning a medal with the team!"

Queen's Baton relay visits Sheffield

The Queen's Baton relay of the XX Commonwealth Games visited Sheffield on Sunday for a host of events around the city.

Tricia Memmott at Concord Park.

England Junior Netball at EIS.

Elizabeth Sorsby and Nick Matthew at High Bradfield.

Olympic swimmer James Kirton at Concord Park.

Joanne Strong at Low Bradfield.

 Paul Hudson, General Manager of EIS Sheffield welcomes and updated Nick Matthew board to the Hall of Champions.

Morgan Lake equals European Youth Hepathlon Record in Gotzis

Seventeen year old Morgan Lake who recently smashed Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s British youth heptathlon best with 5896 points at the age of 16 to become the youngest ever winner of the Multistars event in Florence has followed this up with an impressive performance in Austria.

 Lake broke the 6000 points barrier for the first time to finish overall 17th with 6081 points to equal the European youth best and go second in the world junior list for 2014. Her results included big PBs in the shot (14.85m), 200m (24.59) and javelin (39.74m).

Following her first ever senior heptathlon, she then also went on to break the UK junior high jump record with a clearance of 1.93m in Loughborough.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins Götzis heptathlon with javelin best

Katarina Johnson-Thompson won gold in the prestigious Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria this weekend, as Great Britain’s latest heptathlon star laid down a marker with yet another personal best this year before the Commonwealth Games.

 Victory in the 800 metres saw the 21-year-old Liverpudlian pip Canada’s Brianne Theisen-Eaton to gold by 41 points (6,682 to 6,641) and the pair are expected to be favourites in Glasgow this summer in the absence of Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Johnson-Thompson lay second overnight in this event – the annual IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, which had a field far stronger than that expected at the Commonwealths – but moved into first by winning the long jump in the first of Sunday’s events, jumping 6.70 metres to Theisen-Eaton’s 6.59.

The Canadian reclaimed top spot in the javelin but Johnson-Thompson’s new personal best of 41.44m in the event left her primed before her favoured 800m and she duly delivered.