Paris 2026: Pellacani has European night of nights with golds in mixed 3m synchro and women’s 1m
Italian fans celebrated hugely after witnessing a peerless exhibition of diving from Chiara Pellacani, who ended day 3 at the European Aquatics Championships with two golds – the first partnering Matteo Santoro in the mixed 3m synchro, the second in retaining her women’s 1m springboard title. The chant of “Chiara, Chiara, Chiara!!” rang out at […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2025: Oleksii Sereda voted best men’s diver
Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda has been named best men’s diver in the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards after a season in which he earned his first individual world medal. The 19-year-old took silver in a dramatic 10m platform contest in Singapore that was won with a final flourish by Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau. Sereda, […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2025: men’s diving nominees
Ukraine’s Oleksii Sereda, still only 19, earned the first individual world medal of his developing career as he took silver in a dramatic 10m platform final won with a final flourish by Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau. Sereda thus added to the 10m mixed synchro and 10m synchro silvers he had earned at the respective 2022 and […]
Singapore 2025: Sereda’s silver on diving’s final day puts Ukraine on the world sporting map again
Ukraine’s 19-year-old phenomenon Oleksii Sereda earned men’s 10m platform silver today behind Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau in the final event on the diving programme. Sereda, three-times European champion in this discipline, was satisfied to have taken another step up the world podium after winning bronze in Doha last year. “I feel happy,” he told World Aquatics. […]
Antalya 2025: Germany’s historic final dive takes mixed 3m synchro gold from Italy by 0.03 – but Pellacani responds to win first 1m springboard title
Day two brought high drama and historic achievement to the European Aquatics Diving Championships as Germany’s extraordinary final effort snatched mixed 3m synchro gold from the grasp of Italy’s Chiara Pellacani and Matteo Santoro by 0.03 points. Pellacani then showed world class resolve to win the women’s 1m springboard title and complete her medal set […]
Antalya 2025: Super-talented teenagers Santoro and Sereda targeting gold at European Aquatics Diving Championships
Italy’s 18-year-old phenomenon Matteo Santoro will contest the European Aquatics Diving Championships Antalya 2025 which starts this week on a mission to turn silver to gold. Santoro, who has four European and five world golds at junior level, finished second in the men’s 1m and 3m springboard events – in both of which he was […]
2025 in Prospect: Men’s diving
Men’s diving went from strength-to-strength on the continent in 2024, with several high-level international medals across 12 months of non-stop action. This year will provide a new set of challenges. The 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore frrom July 11 to August 3 will be where fans can expect Europeans to hold their own against […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2024: Tom Daley voted best male diver
Great Britain’s Tom Daley has been voted best male diver of 2024 in the European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards. This award marks the fifth time Daley, who announced his retirement in July, has received the best male diver accolade, with his four previous wins coming in 2009, 2015, 2017, and 2021 – the […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2024: Nominees for best male diver
The Male Diving Athlete of the Year category at the 2024 European Aquatics Awards features five exceptional divers who have made their mark on the sport this year – Jules Bouyer of France, Matteo Santoro of Italy, Ukraine’s Oleksiy Sereda, and British representatives Noah Williams and Tom Daley. Williams had a phenomenal year that was […]
2024 in review: Mixed diving events enable Daley to maintain gold standard on return to competition
Tom Daley’s return to diving competition for the first time since victory in the Tokyo 2020 men’s 10m synchro got off to a golden start in the mixed Team event on the opening day of the World Aquatics Championships in Doha. The 29-year-old Briton partnered Daniel Goodfellow, Scarlett Mew Jensen and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix to take […]
