JOHNSTONE TAKES SILVER TO CLOSE DIVING ACCOUNT
Callum Johnstone showed he's undoubtedly Britain's form diver
at the moment when he collected his second European Junior
Championship medal on the competition's final day in Mallorca.
The 15-year-old City of Leeds diver rounded off an impressive
five-day meet in Palma de Mallorca with silver in the Boys
A Platform event to add to the bronze he collected with partner
Charles Calvert (City of Leeds) in the 3m Synchro three days
earlier.
Johnstone had been earmarked going into competition as the
British diver to watch and he fulfilled that expectation with
a string of impressive performances.
Throughout the Platform event Johnstone looked in control
and dived impeccably until he badly missed a dive and then
struggled with the next. However, he held his nerve despite
the setback to take the silver.
Gold went to Germany's Patrick Hausding with 528.35, Johnstone
finished on 492.20 and bronze went to Christofer Eskilsson
of Sweden in 479.55.
"Overall I'm pretty happy with that although there were
a couple of the dives that disappointed," said Johnstone.
"I still have two more years in that age group so there's
time to improve and find that top step of the podium.
"I started to feel the pressure a bit when I dropped
the third dive so I just tried to shut everything out to concentrate
on the job I was there to do."
Other results on the final day of competition for the divers
saw 8th Jodie McGroarty and Claire Blencowe finished eighth
and 11th respectively in the Girls A 3m springboard. In the
Boys B 1m Springboard Kyle Prior finished eighth.
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