Reid came close to finishing on the podium again at the worlds in gwangju in 2019, placing fourth in the mixed 3m synchro, fifth in the womens 3m synchro and eighth in. God favours every person, without respecting what they did or how much their worth. Dan has recently transferred down to the 3m springboard, and is now training alongside jack laugher in hope of a medal in the upcoming olympic games in tokyo 2020. Earlier in the day in budapest, daley, along with teammate grace reid, won silver in the mixed 3m springboard event. Tom daley and grace reid win mixed gold at european. Grace competed at her first world championships in budapest in 2017, winning a silver in the mixed 3m synchro, again alongside tom daley. The second leg of the fina diving world series in fuji was another successful weekend. Share tom daley tips scots diving partner reid for the top on linkedin press release courtesy of mark pryde the sky is the limit for edinburghborn diver grace reid according to synchro partner. Another silver medal with grace in the mixed syncrhro, but. Tom daley and grace reid won britains first ever mixed 3m synchro gold medal with victory on the third day of the len european aquatics championships 2016. Official profile of olympic athlete grace reid born 09 may 1996, including games, medals, results, photos, videos and news. Olympic bronze medallist and commonweath champion in the 10m synchro with tom daley.
Womens water polo olympic games qualification tournament. The 20yearold from edinburgh will compete in the 3m. Diving down and dirty in fuji toilet explosion i tom daley. Grace reid is looking forward to the biggest show on earth now that her place in the diving team for the rio 2016 games has been confirmed. Reid, who is the first woman to reach a 3m springboard final since 1972, showed her maturity by improving from prelim to semifinal to final and finished with a score of 318. Grace reid takes scotlands commonwealth games medal tally. Tom daley tips scots diving partner reid for the top. View the profiles of professionals named grace reid on linkedin. Having just competed in the womens 1m final, reid teamed up with londonbased diver daley in just a week old partnership to compete.
And she did it in style, picking up gold in the womens 1m springboard. Tom daley and grace reid win historic european gold. Daley and reid win world series silver in beijing march 11, 2018. Grace reid aims to continue progress in diving pool.
Glorious gold for diver grace reid just a couple of days after james heatly won scotlands first commonwealth diving medal in 60 years, another has come along in quick. Tom daley and grace reid won mixed 3m synchro silver on day two of the opening leg of the 2018 fina diving world series in beijing in a repeat of last years world championship in budapest, the british pair finished sandwiched between chinas li zheng and wang han, and canadas jennifer abel and francois imbeaudulac. She has won two gold medals in european championships and a gold at the commonwealth games. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Grace reid and her diving partner in yesterdays event, ross haslam, missed out on european championships gold by a mere whisker but nevertheless, they declared themselves happy to pick up a silver medal at edinburghs royal commonwealth pool. Grace reid has impressed on her olympic debut by finishing in eighth place overall in the 3m springboard final. Tom daley and grace reid won a silver medal for britain in the mixed 3m springboard final at the world diving championships in budapest. The youngest athlete on team scotland in 2010, grace stepped up at. Grace reid becomes the first scottish female diver to win a commonwealth medal after claiming gold in the 1m springboard at gold coast 2018.
Grace reid results, biog and events british swimming. Grace is just years old and already the number one senior diver in scotland. The scot partnered tom daley to mixed synchronised 3m springboard silver in budapest. Tm will sponsor grace over a 3 year term, during which she will keep us up to date with her training programme, forthcoming events and competitions where she. Noah williams makes international breakthrough with world series. Her main event is the individual 3m springboard, for which she won gold in front of a home crowd at the 2018 european championships, but her first international gold medal came on the 1m springboard at the commonwealth games earlier that year. The big names were out in force on day two of the british national diving cup, with tom daley, matty lee, dan goodfellow, grace reid, kat torrance and gemma mcarthur all taking home gold medals. Grace reid has become an established member of the british diving team after making her mark at the rio 2016 olympics and earning a silver medal at the 2017 world championships. Grace reid of edinburgh diving club has had a phenomenal season resulting in her selection to teamgb for. Olympics news diver grace reid seals gb tokyo spot. Grace reid was the height of nonsense at delhi 2010. Diver grace reid says keeping her head will be the key to repeating her world championship success of 2017.
She also impressed to finish fourth in the womens 3m springboard category and fifth, partnered with kat torrance, in the 3m synchro. Get the latest news, events and fixtures for platform and springboard diving in great britain, and learn about the. Diver grace reid in a good place ahead of olympic bid the. Great britain diver grace reid secured a fifth quota place for team gb at the tokyo olympics as she qualified for the womens 3m springboard final. Join facebook to connect with grace reid and others you may know. In christianity divine grace means a favour of god for humankind.
Reid impresses with eighth place finish diving news. Mens water polo olympic games qualification tournament. Scottish diver grace reid has turned to baking to help her switch off when she is away from the pool, but now she is aiming to cook up a storm. When british world champion diver tom daley asked his 2. Grace reid has become an established member of the british diving team after making her. Scottish prodigy grace reid targets commonwealth glory in. Another silver medal with grace in the mixed syncrhro, but the toilet, arcade and room situation made japan a. Divine grace simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Grace reid says that she feels like the grandma of the scottish diving scene, despite the fact she is still only 21.
Grace reid battled hard to secure a fifth spot for team gb at the tokyo olympics. The dive london athlete reached the final of the 2019 fina world. It is not, however, quite as ridiculous a statement as. Tom daley and grace reid won great britains first gold medal at the european aquatics championships in london daley, 21, and reid, who turned 20 on monday, topped the podium in. Video silver for tom daley and grace reid at world. At just 14 years old grace competed in the 3m springboard event at the 2010 commonwealth games in delhi. Banana bread and michelle obama are helping edinburgh diver grace reid keep a sense of perspective as she plunges deeper into the buildup to next years tokyo olympics.
Disappointing daley surrenders world championship title. Grace reid feels like the grandma of scottish diving at. Grace reid wins diving gold for scotland sports mole. Daredevil reid dived fulllength into the hearts and minds of the nation at the commonwealth games in india when. Thomas miller investment sponsors number one senior diver. Grace reid really made her mark in 2016 after a number of highly successful outings at both national and international competitions including the len european aquatics championships in london all culminating in a debut selection for team gb at the rio 2016 olympic games later this year. Diver grace reid describes the moment, aged five, that she plunged off the 10metre board at her local pool in edinburgh for the first time as feeling like flying.
She came 6th in the final, setting a new personal best in the process and becoming the first british junior diver to score over 300 points. Selected for her third commonwealth games at the age of just 21, grace put in a brilliant display in the 1m springboard to win scotlands first ever medal for womens diving at a commonwealth games, and the first scottish diving gold for 60 years. Laugher bags bronze as reid secures tokyo spot team gb. Ldn british olympic diver team red sky graham and sibbald.
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