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Diving At The 2022 Commonwealth Games
Diving (sport), Diving is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Birmingham, England. The sport has been staged in all Diving at the Commonwealth Games, twenty-one previous editions of the Games thus far, and will be contested in England for the third time. The competition is scheduled to take place between 4 and 8 August 2022, spread across twelve events, two more than in Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast as mixed-sex 3 metre and 10 metre synchronised events are held for the first time. All individual events shall have preliminaries and finals, while synchronised events will be a straight final. Schedule The competition schedule is as follows: Venue The diving competition will be held at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, the only new-build permanent venue constructed for the Games. The Swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, swimming competition will also take place there. Medal summary Medal table Medalists Men Women Mixed Partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandwell Aquatics Centre
Sandwell Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility located in Londonderry, West Midlands, Londonderry, Smethwick, West Midlands county, West Midlands, England. It contains an Olympic-size swimming pool (one of only two in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region), a 10-metre Diving platform, diving board with 25-metre pool (the only one in the whole of the Midlands), a community swimming pool and permanent seating for 1,000 spectators with an additional 4,000 seats during the Games. Construction began in January 2020 and opened on 12 April 2022 to mark 100 days until the start of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The centre was initially used for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and was the only venue constructed for the games. After the games, the centre is scheduled to be redeveloped and will officially open for public use in May 2023 when it will be operated by the Sandwell Leisure Trust. During the redevelopment, seating used for the Games will be removed and two 4-court sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diving At The 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's Synchronised 3 Metre Springboard
The women's synchronised 3 metre springboard was part of the 2022 Commonwealth Games diving program. The competition was held on 6 August 2022 at Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham, England. Reigning champion Esther Qin of Australia returns to defend her title with a new partner Brittany O'Brien. As in previous Games, nations can send more than one team to a synchronised event. Australia have entered two teams in this event. Schedule All times are BST (UTC+1) Format A single round will be held, with each team making five dives. Eleven judges score each dive: three for each diver, and five for synchronisation. Only the middle score counts for each diver, with the middle three counting for synchronisation. These five scores are averaged, multiplied by 3, and multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty Degree of difficulty (DD, sometimes called tariff or grade) is a rating used in several sports and other competitions to indicate the technical difficulty of a skill, per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Harding (diver)
Anthony Harding (born 30 June 2000) is an English diver. He won a bronze medal in the synchronised three metre springboard at the 2024 Summer Olympics having won silver in the same event at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships. Early life Harding grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester. He joined the City of Leeds diving club at age 10, and relocated to Leeds without his family at age 16. He studied at Elliott Hudson College, before starting a course in electronic engineering at Leeds City College. Career Harding participated in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, where he won the silver medal behind Daniel Restrepo in the boy's 3m springboard event. After the 2020 Summer Olympics in August 2021 Harding started training together with Jack Laugher. They won the silver medal in the synchronized 3m springboard event at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. Alongside Jack Laugher, he won a bronze medal in the synchronised three metre spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matty Lee
Matthew Lee (born 5 March 1998) is a retired British elite diver and Olympic gold medallist. Adept in both individual and synchronised diving, and across both 3-metre springboard and platform, Lee won the gold medal in 10-metre platform at the 2015 European Games, the mixed 10-metre synchronised platform at the 2017 European Diving Championships and has twice been European junior champion on the 3-metre springboard. At world level, Lee won the silver medal in the mixed 10-metre synchronised platform event at the 2017 World Championships, and at the 2019 World Championships, Lee and Tom Daley won bronze in the 10 m synchro event, as well as gold in July 2021 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Early life Matty Lee was born to Helen and Tim Lee on 5 March 1998 in Leeds. He learned to swim, then took up diving in 2005 at the age of seven. He was also involved in gymnastics and aikido, but chose to concentrate on diving in 2007. He trained with the City of Leeds Diving Club at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rylan Wiens
Rylan Mackenzie Wiens (born January 2, 2002) is a Canadian diver in the platform (10 metre) events. He represented Canada in the 2024 Olympic Games. Career Wiens' first major competition was at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where he competed in the individual and synchro events. At the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup, Wiens scored a 488.55 in the final, which won him the bronze medal. In July 2021, Wiens finished in second in the individual 10 m platform competition at the Canadian trials. This qualified him to compete in the individual 10 m event in Tokyo, where he placed 19th. At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Wiens won the bronze medal in the synchronized 10 m platform event with partner Nathan Zsombor-Murray. He competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where he won silver medals in the men's 10 metre platform and men's synchronised 10 metre platform events. At the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, he earned a bronze medal in the men's 10 metre synchron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassiel Rousseau
Cassiel Emmanuel Rousseau (born 4 February 2001) is an Australian diver. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's 10 metre platform, and the 2024 Summer Olympics in the men's 10 metre platform and men's synchronised 10 metre platform, the latter with Domonic Bedggood. Rousseau claimed gold in the men's 10m platform World Championships event in Fukuoka 2023, creating history for the Australian diving team by becoming the first Australian men's 10m platform world champion. Early life and career Rousseau is the grandson of French cyclist Michel Rousseau, who won gold in the men's sprint at the 1956 Summer Olympics. His mother is from Paris, and the family (he is a twin and one of seven children) spoke French at home when he was young. He was a child circus performer and acrobatic gymnast, and appeared in a series final of Australia's Got Talent by age 11. He began diving in 2017,and became Australia's elite junior champion a year later. His older sister Elodie forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Goodfellow
Daniel Goodfellow (born 19 October 1996) is a retired British diver, active in the elite sport since 2011, and in the senior ranks from 2013-2025. A close contemporary of Olympic and world champions Tom Daley and Jack Laugher, Goodfellow competed with both in senior synchronised and team events for Great Britain and England. With Daley, he won bronze in the 10 metre synchronised platform event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Goodfellow is a two-time Commonwealth Games champion, a World champion in the team event in 2024 and an Olympic bronze medalist in the synchronised event in 2016. He first represented Great Britain as a senior at the 2013 European Diving Championships in the 10 m platform event and the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in the same event. Goodfellow won a bronze medal in the Men's 10m Synchronised Platform event with his diving partner Tom Daley at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He has also won a gold with Daley in the same event at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Houlden
Jordan Christopher Houlden (born 25 July 1998) is an English diver from the City Of Sheffield Diving Club. He is a silver medalist of the 2022 European Diving Championships. Career Houlden won at the ASA National Age Group Championships in 2010, silver in the Group C 1m Springboard. He made progress through the junior rankings, including winning Group B 1m gold with the ASA England Programmes team at the 2013 Trofeo Niccolò Campo in Rome. After making his European Junior debut in 2014, Houlden was one of the standout English junior divers in 2015, winning Group A 1m gold at the British Elite Junior Championships. In June 2015 he competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku, finishing fourth in the 3m Springboard despite not diving five months prior due to breaking his thumbs. He became 2015 ASA England Programmes Athlete of the Year for diving. In May 2016 he was part of the British team at the 2016 LEN European Aquatics Championships. He competed for England at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Shixin
Li Shixin (; born 12 February 1988) is a Chinese-born Australian Diving (sport), diver who specialises in the 1 metre springboard event. Li won gold medals in the Diving at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1 metre springboard, 1 metre springboard event in the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, 2011 and Diving at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1 metre springboard, 2013 World Aquatics Championships. Career In 2019, he chose to represent Australia in international competitions. Li qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and competed in the Men's 3m Springboard. He came 27th. At the Diving at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 1 metre springboard, 2022 World Aquatics Championships, he won a bronze medal in the 1 metre springboard event. At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, with Diving at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, diving competition held in August, Shixin ranked first in the preliminaries of the Diving at the 2022 Commonwealth Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Laugher
Jack David Laugher ( ; born 30 January 1995) is a British diver competing for Great Britain and England. A specialist on springboard, he competes in individual springboard events, and in synchronised events with Chris Mears, Daniel Goodfellow and Anthony Harding. Laugher and Mears became Britain's first diving Olympic champions by winning a gold medal in the men's synchronised 3m springboard event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, an achievement many had expected double world 10m champion Tom Daley would achieve first. A week later, Laugher won a silver in the men's individual 3m springboard at the same Games, becoming the first British diver to win multiple Olympic diving medals at the same Games. As of 2024, this silver remans the highest placing by an individual British diver at the Olympic Games. Laugher was a double Commonwealth Games champion for England at the 2014 Games in Glasgow, a double champion again at the 2022 Games in Birmingham (in 1m springboard and 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2022 Commonwealth Games
Swimming (sport), Swimming was among the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. The sport had been staged in all Swimming at the Commonwealth Games, twenty-one previous editions of the Games thus far, and will be contested in England for the third time. The competition took place between 29 July and 3 August 2022, spread across fifty-two events (including twelve parasport events). For the first time, visually impaired swimming was held at the Commonwealth Games. Schedule The competition schedule was as follows: Venue The swimming competitions were held at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, the only new-build permanent venue constructed for the Games. The Diving at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, diving competition also took place there. Qualification (parasport) A total of up to 96 para swimmers (48 per gender) qualified to compete at the Games. Nations may earn three quotas per event, allocated as follows: * Athletes in the World Para Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Building (magazine)
''Building'' is one of the United Kingdom's oldest business-to-business magazines, launched as ''The Builder'' in 1843 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom – architect of Birmingham Town Hall and designer of the Hansom Cab. The journal was renamed ''Building'' in 1966 as it is still known today, and is the only UK title to cover the entire building industry. History ''The Builder's'' first two editors, Hansom and Alfred Bartholomew (1801–1845), did not last long in the job. The architect George Godwin (1813–1888) was editor from 1844 to 1883, and turned ''The Builder'' "into the most important and successful professional paper of its kind with a readership well beyond the architectural and building world." Godwin apparently wrote most of the content himself, relying on a staff of just five people. His successor, Henry Heathcote Statham (1839–1924), edited the journal from 1883 to 1908. Rival publication ''The British Architect and Northern Engineer'', founded as ''The British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |