James Milton and Chris Mears have won the gold and bronze medal respectively in the boys ‘b’ platform event at the European Junior Diving Championships in Minsk.

Milton has been showing is promise throughout the year and secured his first European Junior medal with an impressive score of 412.05. The City of Sheffield diver secured high scores of nine in his penultimate dive to seal his medal.

Southampton Diver Mears had a consistent performance to score 7s throughout the rounds to finish with a score of 408.40 and the bronze medal.

The silver medal went to Ukrainian diver Alexandr Bondar with 409.75 points.

Yesterda, British pair Charles Calvert and Callum Johnstone finished in fourth place in the boys 3m Synchro with a score of 284.40.

Megan Sylvester and Saffron Sutcliffe, who are both competing at their first European Junior Championships, finished in 8th and 9th place respectively. Sylvester secured her finish with a score of 323.20 and Sutcliffe scored 314.50.

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The European Junior Diving Championships take place in Minsk, Belarus at the Water Sport Palace from 25 – 29 June.

The EJC Diving squad is as follows
Max Brick (Southampton Diving)
Charles Calvert (City of Leeds)
Callum Johnstone (City of Leeds)
Chris Mears (Southampton Diving)
James Milton (City of Sheffield)
Saffron Sutcliffe (City of Leeds)
Megan Sylvester (City of Sheffield)

For further details contact British Swimming Media Officer Gemma Field on 01509 632262, 07917 726431 or email gemma.field@swimming.org

British Swimming is the National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Open Water in Great Britain.  It is responsible internationally for the high performance representation of the sport. The members of British Swimming are the three Home Countries national governing bodies of England (Amateur Swimming Association), Scotland (Scottish Amateur Swimming Association) and Wales (Welsh Amateur Swimming Association). British Swimming seeks to enable its athletes to achieve gold medal success at the Olympics, Paralympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.

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