Leon Taylor あられ／賞賛するs `coming of age´ moment for Team GB´s 女性（の） divers
Former Olympic silver medallist Leon Taylor あられ／賞賛するd a “coming of age” moment for Team GB’s 女性（の） divers に引き続いて their success at the World 選手権s.
Team GB earned their first ever World 選手権 飛び込み メダル in a women’s event on Sunday when Lois Toulson and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix took silver in the 10 metres synchro in Fukuoka.
Their historic success in Japan was replicated just 24 hours later when Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen earned silver in the three metres synchro and Taylor believes it is a “打開 moment” for Team GB’s 女性（の） divers.
“It’s the first ever time our 女性（の） 競技者s have won a World 選手権 メダル, then it was 支援するd up today by a wonderful 成果／努力 in the three metre by Yasmin and Scarlett,” he told the PA news 機関.
Leon Taylor has あられ／賞賛するd Team GB´s 女性（の） divers (Ian West/PA)
“The silvers for the girls has been incredible, 支援する-to-支援する silvers at a World 選手権s having never stood on the podium before as 女性（の） 競技者s for GB.
“For me it’s a co ming of age for GB 女性（の） 飛び込み because it’s been on the cards for a while, this is a real 打開 moment, the 統計（学） speak for themselves.
“It just fills me with excitement ahead of next year, but of course we’ve got to be careful not to get too excited because there’s a 過程 and 職業s to be done.
“The team are doing a beautiful 職業 in Fukuoka so we couldn’t have asked for a better start.”
Spendolini-Sirieix, daughter of TV personality Fred Sirieix, earned two gold メダルs at the 2022 連邦／共和国 Games, while partner Toulson 安全な・保証するd two silvers in Birmingham as Team England took 15 メダルs in total at the 競争.
The 二人組 have been competing together for just under a year and have already enjoyed success, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing a European 10m synchro gold メダル in Rome last year.
The World 選手権 silvers 安全な・保証する a 位置／汚点／見つけ出す at next year’s Olympics in Par is and it comes に引き続いて a 勝利を得た period for Team GB’s divers.
“Peter (Waterfield) and I, nearly 20 years ago now, we won the first Olympic メダル in British 飛び込み for 44 years and that was a 打開 moment,” Taylor 追加するd.
“Then you’ve got the Tom Daley 影響 and Jack (Laugher) and their success, when it comes to major メダルs, it has been 攻撃するd ひどく に向かって the men’s and the boys’ 味方する of the sport.
“But the women have always been there, the 可能性のある has always been there and it’s just blossoming now.
“It couldn’t be more exciting with what they’ve 達成するd, the タイミング, the fact that we’ve got not やめる a home Olympics, but it’s の近くに just over the pond in Paris, a year away.
“The 祝賀 that we had in Birmingham at the 連邦／共和国 Games across men’s and women’s success was magnificent and now it’s 存在 replicated on the world 行う／開催する／段階.”
Taylor 安全な・保証するd silver と一緒に Waterfield at Athens 2004 in the Men’s 10 metre synchronised 壇・綱領・公約 after 辛うじて 行方不明の out on a podium place at S ydney 2000 and the 45-year-old 認める it was “incredible” to 実行する his ambition.
Taylor said: “I was lucky enough to compete at three and at my third Olympics, 20 years after watching the Olympics on the TV and the start of my dream, I realised that ambition to stand on the podium to 勝利，勝つ an Olympic メダル was incredible.
Peter Waterfield and Leon Taylor earned silver at the 2004 Olympics (Phil Noble/PA)
“For me the reflection is the support I had along the way, because that moment in time even though I was stood next to my team-mate it wasn’t just about me or us, it was about everything that had been 与える／捧げるd.
“All the way 支援する to my parents and all the sacrifices they made, I feel very fortunate I was at the beginning of this wonderful 時代 in sport where the 国家の 宝くじ 基金ing （機の）カム in at the beginning of my career.”
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