A TEAM of rising stars from Albatross Diving Club brought home four gold medals and a silver from the Gavin Brown competition in Southampton recently.
First to dive on the day were Meah Thorngate, Daisy Cook and Maya Peche in the girls’ 10-11 age group.
In what was an extremely tight contest, Cook and Peche dived excellently, both scoring a minimum of seven points from each judge for their inward dive tuck from the one metre board. Cook edged out Peche to win gold, with Peche taking silver.
Meanwhile, Thorngate put in a consistent set of dives, doing especially well on her 1½ somersaults dive tuck from the one-metre board, to finish mid-field in 16th.
Diving in the boys’ 12-13 age group was Harry Healey, who had a good competition and scored highly for his forward dive tuck from the one metre board to win the second gold medal of the day for Albatross.
In the boys’ 14-18 age group, Alfie Cook had an exceptional contest scoring an average of 26 points for all of his dives to win the team’s third gold medal.
Adam Elder also enjoyed a very good competition, managing to score highly on his back dive tuck dive from one metre to finish in sixth place.
The Reading club's competitor of the day was Lucy Chambers in the girls’ 14-18 age group. She scored 32 points for her reverse dive tuck off three metre to finish the event in first place.
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