PLYMOUTH divers impressed at home and abroad over the weekend.
At the British Championships at Sandwell, Plymouth Diving’s Euan McCabe picked up two medals in the highly-competitive men’s platform competitions.
He won gold in the men’s 10m synchro event with Dive London’s Ben Cutmore.
In a tense and tight final, they managed to hold off the challenge of Noah Williams and Noah Penman and Kyle Kothari and Robbie Lee.
McCabe and Cutmore secured the title with a tremendous final dive, which secured them 85.32 points.
They finished on a total of 408.93 points, with Williams and Penman scoring 405.60 points and Kothari and Lee taking bronze with 401.28 points.
The men’s individual platform final was equally competitive and also came down to the final round.
There was some really high-class diving and McCabe had to settle for bronze, despite scoring an impressive 480.45 points.
McCabe hardly put a foot wrong and scored more than 81 points for four of his six dives.
But incredibly Kothari and Williams were also on top form and they both scored more than 500 points to take gold and silver.
Kothari scored a staggering 105.45 points for his final effort to take gold with 523.25 points, with Williams scoring 512.95 points.
McCabe’s Plymouth Diving team-mate Amelie Underwood reached the final of the women’s one-metre event and won a bronze medal in the three-metre synchro competition.
Underwood finished sixth in the individual event with 233.40 points and teamed up with Dive London’s Caityln Coster to finish third in the synchro event.
There was also a three-metre synchro medal for Plymouth-born Matthew Dixon, who now competes for Dive London.
He teamed up with Hugo Thomas to win bronze in the men’s competition.
Further afield, Plymouth high diving star Aidan Heslop continued his comeback from 18 months out with injury by finishing second at the second stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series in St Petersburg, Florida.
Heslop had won the opening leg in Bali, but he was edged out by home favourite James Lichtenstein in front of 50,000 spectators in Florida at the weekend.
Lichtenstein had the lead after three rounds and held his nerve superbly to ace his last dive to record the best dive of the competition – a back five somersaults tuck for 9s – and claim the victory by 26 points from Heslop with Romanian Constantin Popovici third.
Heslop leads the series by two points heading into the Copenhagen stop in three weeks’ time where the divers take flight from the roof of the city’s iconic Opera House in Denmark.