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Hackney Youth Sports Awards evening

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:04:51 +0000

The Hackney Youth Sports Awards take place on Monday 12 October 2009 at the Hackney Empire. Doors open at 6.30pm and the event starts at 7pm.

All our athletes who took part in the London Youth Games and Mini Games diving, swimming and water polo should have received invitations to attend from Sarah Davies at [...]

Diving for Adults – summer is coming folks

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:53:11 +0000

In addition, the club is pleased to say we have now also managed to book Park Road for a six-week introductory diving course for Masters members. As with the young divers, sessions will be coached by Rick Dear who is a former national diving champion, and will range from simple poolside jumps and tumbles on [...]

Diving FOR ALL.

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:32:09 +0000

Following our very popular taster course we now have two active and well-attended Sunday morning diving sessions for young members at the Park Road pool in Crouch End. We do though still have room for a few new members or old hands who would like to return to the boards. A new half-term block of [...]

Diving FOR ALL and ALL ages!

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:01:06 +0000

Following our very popular taster course we now have two active and well-attended Sunday morning diving sessions for young members at the Park Road Pool in Crouch End. We do though still have room for a few new members or old hands who would like to return to the boards. There are three Sunday sessions [...]

Teen Daley qualifies for Olympics

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:31:05 +0000

“Tom Daley will become Britain’s youngest ever male Olympian after qualifying in the 10m dive competition at the Fina diving World Cup.

The 13-year-old from Plymouth took bronze in the 10m synchro event but needed a top-eight finish in the individual, and finished seventh.”

(Via BBC SPORT | Olympics & Olympic sport | Diving | Teen [...]

The British Diving Championships 2008 – Day 1

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:55:22 +0000

“4 – 6 January 2008 – Manchester Aquatics Centre

British divers Ben Swain and Nick Robinson-Baker proved they are fast-becoming a world class pairing when they beat the current Olympic Champions on their way to taking gold at the British Diving Championships in Manchester.

The City of Sheffield synchro pair, who have only dived together for the [...]

Daley named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year

admin — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:28:45 +0000

“Impressive young diving prospect Thomas Daley was yesterday named winner of the prestigious BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award.

The award caps an exceptional year for Daley who became England’s youngest ever National Champion when he won senior Platform gold at the 2007 ASA Championships.

The 13-year-old was given special compensation to compete at this [...]

Foley encouraged by performances

admin — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:50:19 +0000

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Diving National Performance Director Steve Foley has been encouraged by Britain’s performance at last weekend’s FINA Diving World Series in Sheffield where a young team collected bronze and a run of top four finishes against a world-best field.

The two-day event, the brainchild of world governing body for aquatics FINA and the first leg of a [...]

China Reigns in World University Games Diving

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:31:32 +0000

“BANGKOK, Thailand, August 18. CHINA claimed the lion’s share of diving gold medals at the World University Games held in Bangkok, Thailand this past week.

Italy’s Noemi Batki and Ukraine’s Maria V???”

(Via Swimming World Magazine China Reigns in World University Games Diving: .)

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RNLI and GBDF say “dive safely”

admin — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:14:46 +0000

“Both the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the Great Britain Diving Federation are urging people to find somewhere ’safe’ to dive, but the answer is that”

(Via lidos at Yahoo! Groups RNLI and GBDF say “dive safely”: .)

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