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Diving Winter Cup kickstarts exciting 2025 season

31 Jan 2025

The Aquatics GB calendar dives into action for 2025 from today (Friday 31st January) as the Aquatics GB Diving Winter Cup gets underway at Ponds Forge, Sheffield.

After a history-making year for British diving in 2024, medallists from last year's Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships and World Junior Championships are among those taking to the boards and platforms across three days of action.

That begins with Friday's Women's 1m Springboard and Men's 3m Springboard events. In the women's 1m, Paris Olympians Grace Reid and Yasmin Harper - a bronze medallist in the Women's 3m Synchro last summer - are lining up, alongside Desharne Bent-Ashmeil and Amy Rollinson, who both made podiums at June's Europeans in Belgrade.

That is followed by the men's 3m contest, featuring Olympian Jordan Houlden, European medallist Matthew Dixon and a host of up-and-coming talents, including Robbie Wood and Noah Penman, fresh from November's World Junior event in Rio.

Prelims begin at 10am, with finals getting underway at 3pm - all streamed live across the Aquatics GB YouTube channel.

Results and startlists are available on DiveRecorder.

Saturday will bring the Women's 10m Platform - including Olympic and World Championship medallist Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, and double World Juniors medallist Maisie Bond - and the Men's 1m Springboard, when Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding will compete, six months on from their memorable 3m synchro Paris bronze. Sunday's competition brings the curtain down with the Women's 3m Springboard and the Men's 10m Platform.

As well as getting Britain's best back into the competition waters, performances at the Aquatics GB Diving Winter Cup 2025 will contribute towards consideration for the GB teams selected for upcoming World Aquatics Diving World Cup and European Championships events later in the year.

Tickets are still available for every session and can be purchased on the door at Ponds Forge - so make sure you are in the stands to watch an exciting start to another busy season ahead.

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Coach Alex Rochas (left) talks through a dive with Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix