Promising British Diver Megan Sylvester has won her first international medal at the European Junior Championships in Minsk.

Competing in the girls 10m Individual Sylvester took to the boards with confidence and led the competition until the final round when she dropped marks with her front 3 ½ Somersaults piked.

The City of Sheffield Diver claimed the silver medal and announced herself to the European circuit with an impressive score of 344.45. She finished behind Alina Chaplenko of Ukraine with a score of 352.90. Third place went to Viktorya Potekhina with 338.40.

Also competing in the 10m Individual was Britain’s Saffron Sutcliffe who finished in 11th place with a score of 266.90.

In the boys 3m individual Chris Mears put up a good fight to win his second European Junior medal after finishing in third place with a score of 414.35. James Milton finished in 11th place with a total of 383.90.

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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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