Great Britain at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
| Great Britain at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships | |
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| FINA code | GBR |
| National federation | British Swimming |
| Website | www |
| in Kazan, Russia | |
| Competitors | 50 in 5 sports |
| Medals Ranked 5th |
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| World Aquatics Championships appearances | |
Great Britain competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia between 24 July to 9 August 2015.
Tom Daley and Rebecca Gallantree became the first ever winners of the Mixed team event. In doing so, Daley became the first British diver to win multiple medals across World Championships, and the first British double world champion.[1] Gallantree became the first female British diver to win a World Championship medal of any colour, and the first female British World Champion.[2] With bronze in the Men's 10 m platform, Daley would go on to become the first British diver to win three World Championship medals.
Jack Laugher, with his bronze medal in both the Men's 3 m springboard event, and Men's 3 m synchronized springboard with Chris Mears, became the first British diver to win two World championship medals at one edition, later equalled by Daley.[3] With a gold and three bronze medals, the 2015 edition was by some margin the most successful World Championships[2] in diving for Great Britain since the championships began.
With Great Britain's first gold medal in Men's high diving, Gary Hunt brought the Great Britain overall tally to ten medals, the highest ever for the nation at a FINA World Aquatics Championships. Simultaneously, with his silver medal from 2013, Hunt became the most successful male high diver since the event was brought into the World Aquatics Championships.
Adam Peaty became the first British swimmer to ever win three gold medals at a global championships, Worlds or Olympic, with victories in the 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events and the 4 x 100 metre mixed medley relay. James Guy won the first ever gold medal in male freestyle for Great Britain at a World Championships in the 200 metres freestyle, and then anchored the Great Britain Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team to its first ever victory in the event.
The bronze medal won by Jaz Carlin in the Women's 800 m freestyle brought the tally of swimming medals to five golds, a silver and three bronzes, at nine medals, the best return for Great Britain in the swimming portion of a World Aquatics Championships, having already achieved the best results in their history in diving and high diving. The full tally of seven golds, one silver and six bronze was also an historic high for the championships as a whole.
Medalists
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Diving
[edit]British divers qualified for the individual spots and the synchronized teams at the World Championships. Nine divers have been nominated to the roster for Team GB at the Worlds, including 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Tom Daley.[4]
Diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was a qualification event for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and Great Britain, with a top three finish in the 3 m synchronized springboard for Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, achieved a quota place for a team at the Rio games. In the individual events, Tom Daley (10m platform) and Jack Laugher (3m springboard) both won bronze medals, and they, along with finalists Rebecca Gallantree (3 metre springboard) and Tonia Couch (10 metre platform), won a single quota place for Great Britain in each of the four individual diving events in Rio.
- Men
| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| James Denny | 1 m springboard | 309.60 | 26 | — | did not advance | ||
| Jack Laugher | 3 m springboard | 450.80 | 7 Q | 490.90 | 5 Q | 528.90 | 
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| Chris Mears | 419.20 | 18 Q | 422.50 | 15 | did not advance | ||
| Tom Daley | 10 m platform | 466.55 | 9 Q | 524.70 | 3 Q | 537.95 |
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| Matthew Lee | 437.35 | 14 Q | 357.60 | 18 | did not advance | ||
| Jack Laugher Chris Mears |
3 m synchronized springboard | 417.33 | 4 Q | — | 445.20 |
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| James Denny Matthew Lee |
10 m synchronized platform | 379.86 | 12 Q | — | 396.84 | 9 | |
- Women
| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| Alicia Blagg | 3 m springboard | 262.55 | 26 | did not advance | |||
| Rebecca Gallantree | 294.15 | 13 Q | 305.10 | 8 Q | 289.00 | 10 | |
| Sarah Barrow | 10 m platform | 308.90 | 17 Q | 283.10 | 18 | did not advance | |
| Tonia Couch | 328.70 | 9 Q | 339.70 | 7 Q | 340.30 | 8 | |
| Alicia Blagg Rebecca Gallantree |
3 m synchronized springboard | 287.40 | 4 Q | — | 286.86 | 10 | |
| Sarah Barrow Tonia Couch |
10 m synchronized platform | 302.52 | 4 Q | — | 308.40 | 6 | |
- Mixed
| Athlete | Event | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | ||
| Tom Daley Rebecca Gallantree |
Team | 434.65 | 
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High diving
[edit]Great Britain has qualified two high divers at the World Championships.[5]
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Aldridge | Men's high diving | did not finish | |
| Gary Hunt | 629.30 |
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Open water swimming
[edit]Great Britain fielded a full team of seven swimmers to compete in the open water marathon.[6]
- Men
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Allen | 5 km | 55:32.0 | 23 |
| Jack Burnell | 10 km | 1:50:05.8 | 5 |
| Daniel Fogg | 1:50:39.7 | 14 | |
| Caleb Hughes | 5 km | 55:21.9 | 7 |
- Women
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Dearing | 5 km | 1:00:53.3 | 23 |
| Danielle Huskisson | 10 km | 2:00:57.3 | 35 |
| Keri-Anne Payne | 1:58:53.6 | 15 |
Swimming
[edit]British swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):[7] All British swimmers must qualify by finishing in the top two of the national championships, having gained the GB qualifying A standard set by British Swimming in the relevant final.
Great Britain consists of 30 swimmers (16 men and 14 women). Among the official roster featured European and Commonwealth Games champions Jazmin Carlin, Chris Walker-Hebborn, and Adam Peaty, who overhauled the 58-second barrier to set a new world record in the 100 m breaststroke at the national trials.[8][9]
The championships were a qualification event for the relay races at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and Great Britain qualified for five of the six relays in Rio, the women's 4 x 100 freestyle being the exception, where they did not field a team in Kazan.
Great Britain's total of five golds and nine medals in the swimming pool are the best returns in golds and medals for Great Britain in the history of the Championships.[10]
- Men
- Women
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Jazmin Carlin | 400 m freestyle | 4:07.15 | =6 Q | — | 4:03.74 | 4 | |
| 800 m freestyle | 8:23.83 | 5 Q | — | 8:18.15 |
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| Francesca Halsall | 50 m freestyle | 24.80 | 8 Q | 24.50 | 7 Q | 24.51 | 7 |
| 50 m butterfly | 25.86 | 5 Q | 25.71 | 3 Q | 25.85 | 6 | |
| Rachael Kelly | 100 m butterfly | 58.48 | =16 Q | 58.27 | 12 | did not advance | |
| Jemma Lowe | 100 m butterfly | 58.74 | 19 | did not advance | |||
| Hannah Miley | 200 m butterfly | 2:09.44 | 13 Q | 2:09.21 | =14 | did not advance | |
| 200 m individual medley | 2:12.22 | 7 Q | 2:11.19 | 7 Q | 2:10.19 | 5 | |
| 400 m individual medley | 4:36.11 | 4 Q | — | 4:34.79 | 4 | ||
| Siobhan-Marie O'Connor | 200 m freestyle | 1:58.27 | 11 Q | 1:57.30 | 10 | did not advance | |
| 200 m individual medley | 2:08.92 | 2 Q | 2:08.45 | 2 Q | 2:08.77 |
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| Lauren Quigley | 50 m freestyle | 25.53 | 28 | did not advance | |||
| 50 m backstroke | 27.94 | 6 Q | 27.88 | 7 Q | 27.99 | 7 | |
| 100 m backstroke | 1:00.14 | =7 Q | 59.71 | 8 Q | 59.78 | 7 | |
| Molly Renshaw | 200 m breaststroke | 2:26.32 | 18 | did not advance | |||
| Elizabeth Simmonds | 100 m backstroke | 1:00.38 | 11 Q | 1:00.40 | 13 | did not advance | |
| 200 m backstroke | 2:10.48 | 13 Q | 2:10.57 | 12 | did not advance | ||
| Jessica Thielmann | 800 m freestyle | 2:36.88 | 15 | — | did not advance | ||
| 1500 m freestyle | 16:21.21 | 10 | — | did not advance | |||
| Aimee Willmott | 200 m butterfly | 2:10.07 | 19 | did not advance | |||
| 400 m individual medley | 4:36.82 | 7 Q | — | 4:38.75 | 7 | ||
| Siobhan-Marie O'Connor Jazmin Carlin Rebecca Turner Hannah Miley Eleanor Faulkner* |
4 × 200 m freestyle relay | 7:54.99 | 7 Q | — | 7:50.60 | 5 | |
| Rachael Kelly Siobhan-Marie O'Connor Lauren Quigley Rebecca Turner |
4 × 100 m medley relay | 4:00.02 | 7 Q | — | DSQ | ||
- Mixed
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Chris Walker-Hebborn Adam Peaty Siobhan-Marie O'Connor Francesca Halsall Ross Murdoch* Rachael Kelly* |
4 × 100 m medley relay | 3:44.39 | 2 Q | 3:41.71 WR |
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Synchronized swimming
[edit]Great Britain has qualified two synchronized swimmers in the women's duet events.
| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| Jodie Cowie Genevieve Randall |
Duet technical routine | 74.6512 | 24 | did not advance | |
| Duet free routine | 76.0333 | 24 | did not advance | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Daley and Gallantree claim gold in Kazan.
- ^ a b Gallantree nearly retired from sport before gold in Kazan.
- ^ Laugher wins second World diving bronze.
- ^ "Tom Daley to lead Great Britain at FINA World Championships". Western Morning News. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ^ "World Championships Kazan 2015 – High Diving Info" (PDF). FINA. 7 June 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ^ Keith, Braden (14 May 2015). "Keri-Anne Payne Leads Four British Open Water Swimmers to 2015 Worlds 10K". SwimSwam.com. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ^ "Kazan 2015 (Swimming) – Qualifying Procedures". FINA. 6 November 2014. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ "British Swimming Names World Championship Team". Swimming World Magazine. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ^ Race, Loretta (24 April 2015). "Adam Peaty, Jazz Carlin Among Great Britain's 2015 Worlds Team Roster". SwimSwam. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ^ Carlin bronze for ninth GB medal.